“If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?”
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Famous Lord Chesterfield Quotes
“Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.”
“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”
“Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.”
“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”
“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”
“I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.”
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author