Quotes By Lord Chesterfield

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

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.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.