Lord Chesterfield Quotes - Page 5

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• Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

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  Fashion, Understanding, Mind

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.127, Oxford University Press

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• Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

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  Common Sense, Truth Is, Uncommon

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

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  Knowledge, Foundation, Remember

  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.166

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• Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

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  Business, Work, People

  "The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Insult To Injury, Domestic Violence

  Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

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• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

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  Inspirational, Men, People

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• May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

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  Health, Blessing, Long

  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.313

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

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  Ugly, Flattery, Enough

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

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  Family, Father, Son

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• When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Clothes And Fashion

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• Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

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  Hate, Political, Politics

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• 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.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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

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• If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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  Passion, Ambition, Pride

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• Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

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  Sarcasm, Arrows, Bows

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Flower, Men

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

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• The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

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  Work, Society, Willing

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.316, Oxford University Press

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• A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

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  Men, Pleasing Others, Merit

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• Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

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  Inspirational, Character, Known

  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.224

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

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  Jewels, World, Way

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.85, Oxford University Press

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• Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

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  Pockets, Watches, Like You

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• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

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  Suicide, Looks, Look Up

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.233, Wildside Press LLC

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• As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.

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  Dream, Strong, Kings

  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.621

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• Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

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  Money, Gold, Silver

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.361

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• Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

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  Fear, Coward, Insult

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• Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

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  Fall, Numbers, People

  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.213

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