46 Quotations by Lord Chesterfield
- 21. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; ...

- 22. Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

- 23. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo ...

- 24. Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

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

- 26. Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t ...

- 27. Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.

- 28. Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and kee ...

- 29. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc ...

- 30. Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

- 31. Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha ...

- 32. Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas ...

- 33. Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

- 34. The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t ...

- 35. The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old ...

- 36. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

- 37. The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

- 38. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

- 39. The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e ...

- 40. The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s ...

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