Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. - Lord Chesterfield

You must look into people as well as at them. - Lord Chesterfield

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down. - Lord Chesterfield

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. - Lord Chesterfield

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should. - Lord Chesterfield

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth. - Lord Chesterfield

Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted. - Lord Chesterfield

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman w. - Lord Chesterfield

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. - Lord Chesterfield

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. - Lord Chesterfield

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