162 Quotations with Chesterfield.
- 21. Phillip Chesterfield: Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced ...
- 22. The Earl of Chesterfield: Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the leas ...
- 23. Lord Chesterfield: Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to thi ...
- 24. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong ...
- 25. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them ...
- 26. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manner ...
- 27. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot re ...
- 28. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
- 29. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the leas ...
- 30. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. Howev ...
- 31. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- 32. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understan ...
- 33. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and consider ...
- 34. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
- 35. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon y ...
- 36. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last ed ...
- 37. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
- 38. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
- 39. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man. Therefore mind it w ...
- 40. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and wi ...
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