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.


Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Ridicule is the best test of truth
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