162 Quotations with Chesterfield.
- 61. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
- 62. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as ...
- 63. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
- 64. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will no ...
- 65. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idl ...
- 66. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people ...
- 67. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- 68. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the ...
- 69. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
- 70. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accu ...
- 71. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same t ...
- 72. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feelin ...
- 73. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have ...
- 74. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
- 75. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
- 76. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their unders ...
- 77. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- 78. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, a ...
- 79. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- 80. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon ...
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