Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Humility, Bait, Modesty

  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.341

• Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Advice, Praise

• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Vanity, Names

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