Quotes By Lord Chesterfield
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Lord Chesterfield
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Lord Chesterfield
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Lord Chesterfield
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield