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Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, four...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation betwe...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET Religion searches for reason, and never finds purpose. They think the purpose is to have better reas...
R.J. BLIZZARD it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things agains...
OSCAR WILDE Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening t...
SARA BAUME A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
CLAUDE CHABROL That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le...
DENNIS PRAGER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don’t know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons an...
ANGELA CARTER I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation betwe...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
EARL OF DERBY Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, four...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Despatch is the soul of business.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,-...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you w...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD 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
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be plea...
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and kee...
LORD CHESTERFIELD [Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of thin...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do no...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, mak...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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