Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Communication, Two, People

• Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Expression, Language

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

• Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Language, Speak, Company

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.67, Oxford University Press

• 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

• Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Flower, Men

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.162, Oxford University Press

• A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Men, Use

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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