Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

• Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Writing, Men, Giving

• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Perfection, Laziness

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.185

• Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strength, Being Strong, Athlete

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.301

• For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.155, Oxford University Press

• Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Giving, Age

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

• Give Dayrolles a chair.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Chairs, Last Words

  Last words, in W. H. Craig 'Life of Lord Chesterfield' (1907) p. 343

• I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Advice, Wish

• I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Giving, Advice

• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Knowledge, People

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

• Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Doe, Pleasure

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.351

• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

• Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Character, Mean

• Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Charity, Merit

• In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  'Letters to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq.' (1817) Letter to A. C. Stanhope, 12 October 1765

• Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Giving, Waiting

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.268, OUP Oxford

• To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Giving, Credit

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.42, Oxford University Press

• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Drinking, Loss

• Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, People, Tone

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.102, Oxford University Press

• I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving Up, Party, Unity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.248, Oxford Paperbacks

• Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Giving, Matter

• Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Government, Giving, Tone

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.346, Oxford University Press

• I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Reflection, Years, Clothes

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.128, Oxford Paperbacks

• Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Age, Amusement

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