Quotes By Lord Chesterfield

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

You must look into people as well as at them.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

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

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.