103 Quotations by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
- 81. The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t ...
- 82. The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old ...
- 83. The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
- 84. The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
- 85. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
- 86. The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e ...
- 87. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
- 88. The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s ...
- 89. There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.
- 90. There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi ...
- 91. There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is ...
- 92. There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but th ...
- 93. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
- 94. Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed ...
- 95. Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
- 96. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- 97. When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
- 98. Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man ...
- 99. Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an ...
- 100. Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score ...
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