Lord Chesterfield Quotes (41 quotations)
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1. [Common sense] is the best sense I know of. - Lord Chesterfield
2. A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. - Lord Chesterfield
3. Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. - Lord Chesterfield
4. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Lord Chesterfield
5. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Lord Chesterfield
6. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield
7. Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. - Lord Chesterfield
8. Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, -where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! - Lord Chesterfield
9. Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. - Lord Chesterfield
10. Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. - Lord Chesterfield
11. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. - Lord Chesterfield
12. Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. - Lord Chesterfield
13. 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
14. I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
15. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
16. I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Lord Chesterfield
17. If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - Lord Chesterfield
18. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. - Lord Chesterfield
19. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. - Lord Chesterfield
20. In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. - Lord Chesterfield
21. 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. - Lord Chesterfield
22. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. - Lord Chesterfield
23. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Lord Chesterfield
24. Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds - Lord Chesterfield
25. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Chesterfield
2. A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. - Lord Chesterfield
3. Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. - Lord Chesterfield
4. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Lord Chesterfield
5. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Lord Chesterfield
6. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield
7. Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. - Lord Chesterfield
8. Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, -where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books! - Lord Chesterfield
9. Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. - Lord Chesterfield
10. Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. - Lord Chesterfield
11. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. - Lord Chesterfield
12. Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. - Lord Chesterfield
13. 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
14. I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
15. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
16. I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Lord Chesterfield
17. If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - Lord Chesterfield
18. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. - Lord Chesterfield
19. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. - Lord Chesterfield
20. In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. - Lord Chesterfield
21. 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. - Lord Chesterfield
22. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. - Lord Chesterfield
23. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Lord Chesterfield
24. Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds - Lord Chesterfield
25. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Chesterfield
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