Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
– Lord Chesterfield
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
– Lord Chesterfield
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
– Lord Chesterfield
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
– Lord Chesterfield
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
– Lord Chesterfield
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
– Lord Chesterfield
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
– Lord Chesterfield
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
– Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
– Lord Chesterfield
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
– Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
– Lord Chesterfield
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
– Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
– Lord Chesterfield
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
– Lord Chesterfield
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
– Lord Chesterfield
Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never.
– Lord Chesterfield
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
– Lord Chesterfield
Take the tone of the company you are in.
– Lord Chesterfield
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
– Lord Chesterfield
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
– Lord Chesterfield
If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
– Lord Chesterfield
Character must be kept bright as well as clean
– Lord Chesterfield
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
– Lord Chesterfield
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
– Lord Chesterfield
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
– Lord Chesterfield
Style is the dress of thoughts
– Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
– Lord Chesterfield
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
– Lord Chesterfield