Lord Chesterfield Quotes - Page 13

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• If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Marriage, Girl, Money

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• The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Nations

  "Character of Pulteney". 1763.

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• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Laughter, Silly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

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• When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Men, Remember

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Hero, Passion

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• The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Loss, Carpe Diem, Moments

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

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Giving, Advice

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• Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Defense, Courtesy, Manners

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Flying, Hours

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• Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dance, Silly, People

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• I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Temptation, Feelings, Age

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• A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Thinking, Design

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• True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Perfect, Treating Others, Ease

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• I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mind, Suffering, Body

  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.548

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• Give Dayrolles a chair.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Chairs, Last Words

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

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• Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Congratulations, Taken, Ink And Paper

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• Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Pride

  Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, December 14, 1756.

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• Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Family, Gossip, People

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• Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Retirement, Years, Two

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1934) (3 April 1773)

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• The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Loss, Degrees

  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.628

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• I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

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  Fire, Poetry, Forgiving

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.316, OUP Oxford

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

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  Self, Denial, Littles

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

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  New Year, Years, Honor

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Party, Unity

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

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• The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.

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  Running, Country, Hunting

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