Lord Chesterfield Quotes

• David, you are an actor everywhere but upon the stage.

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• In case my godson Philip Stanhope shall at anytime keep or be concerned in keeping any racehorse or pack of hounds, or reside one night at New market, that infamous seminary of iniquity and ill-manners, during the course of the races there, or shall resort to the said races or shall lose in one day at any game or bet whatsoever the sum of 500 then in any of the cases aforesaid it is my express will that he, my said godson, shall forfeit and pay out of my estate the sum of 50,000 to and for the use of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

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• 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.

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• The chapter of knowledge is very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.

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• Fashion is more tyrannical at Paris than in any other place in the world; it governs even more absolutely than their king, which is saying a great deal. The least revolt against it is punished by proscription. You must observe and conform to all the minutiae of it, if you will be in fashion there yourself; and if you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

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• Style is the dress of thoughts.

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• It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

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• Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

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• In scandal as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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• Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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• There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.

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• The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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• Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

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• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

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• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

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• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

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  Tags in Ancestry, Denial

• 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.

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  Tags in Distrust, Slight, Dancing

Lord Chesterfield (78)

Birth:	22nd September, 1694
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Statesman

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