Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Lord Chesterfield

Character, Bright, Clean

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Lord Chesterfield

Honest, Error, Ridiculed

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

Great, Care, May

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

Experience, Mind, Find

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield

May, Though, Survive

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield

Minds, Weak, Refuge

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield

Fashion, Nobody

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

Yourself, Others, Open

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield

Religion, Give, Advice

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

Mind, Laughter, Nothing

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

Advice, Used, Days

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge, Closet, Acquired

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield

Same, Show, Vices

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield

Men, Women, Hearts

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

Love, Hate, Interest

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

Beauty, Time, Hours

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

Work, Works, Willing

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

Peace, Wife, Between

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

Rich, Poor, Return

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Lord Chesterfield

Mankind, Govern

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

Great, Narrative, Betrays

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.
Lord Chesterfield

True, Light, Virtue

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Learning, Show, Watch

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

Person, Fashion

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Love, Good, Great

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: September 22, 1694

Died: 1773

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