Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Mean, Vanity

  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.156

• The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Birthday, Time, Liars

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.179

• It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Long, Deceit

• There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Vanity, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.196, Oxford University Press

• One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.104, Oxford University Press

• Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

• The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

  Lord Chesterfield

  New Year, Lying, Years

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