Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

  Lord Chesterfield

  Judging, Age, Merit

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 27 February 1748

• The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Judging, Understanding

• In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike; and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Men, Order

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

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