162 Quotations with Chesterfield.
- 141. Lord Chesterfield: In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou ...
- 142. Lord Chesterfield: Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- 143. Lord Chesterfield: Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accu ...
- 144. Lord Chesterfield: Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, a ...
- 145. Lord Chesterfield: Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your lear ...
- 146. Lord Chesterfield: Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
- 147. Lord Chesterfield: Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you ...
- 148. Lord Chesterfield: Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time ...
- 149. Lord Chesterfield: The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself u ...
- 150. Lord Chesterfield: The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young ...
- 151. Lord Chesterfield: The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in gra ...
- 152. Lord Chesterfield: The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a sep ...
- 153. Lord Chesterfield: The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the s ...
- 154. Lord Chesterfield: The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must trave ...
- 155. Lord Chesterfield: When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
- 156. Lord Chesterfield: Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
- 157. Lord Chesterfield: Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, al ...
- 158. Earl of Chesterfield: A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero ...
- 159. Earl of Chesterfield: Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the p ...
- 160. Earl of Chesterfield: Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
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