Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield - Page 2

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Breeding
Good Breeding
Sake
Self-denial
Result
Sense
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Clothes
Deserve
Thoughts
Surely
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Patience
Quality
Business
Heard
Request
Most
Grant
His
Would
Necessary
Rather
Story
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Concerned
Letters
Politeness
Reasonable
Within
Answering
Bow
Immediately
Returning
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Being Pretty
Brother
Grandma
Peas
Taught
Inside
Hit
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Destroyed
Indolence
Appetites
Brute
Survive
Though
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Show
Watch
Wear
Merely
Pocket
Private
Pull
Strike
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Ambition
Pity
Pride
Engage
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Travel
Description
Acquainted
Nobody
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Gentleness
Resentment
Steadiness
Time Your Feel
Disarmed
Enemies
Manner
Same Time
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Contempt
Injury
Insult
People Nothing More
Bear
Sooner
Less
Forgive
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Burden
Ease
Gratitude
Imperfect
Willing
Lighten
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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Conscience
Honor
Strict
Your Honor
Carry
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Considering
Fatherless
Childless
Commonly
Misfortune
Seldom
Sons
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Advice
Matrimony
Charge
Laid
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Labor
Great Man May
Except
Pleases
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Married
Suffers
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Great Power
Ivy
Merit
Young Man
Power Great Man
Round
Oak
Raise
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Mask
Sight
Virtue
Deformed
Hardly
Seduce
Shocks
Vice
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Time
Enjoy
Idleness
Laziness
Procrastination
Today
Tomorrow
True Value
Time Today Tomorrow
Today Moment Tomorrow
Never
True
Every
Off
Put
Moment
Till
Seize
Value
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Greater
Harder
Liar
Old One
Worse
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There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Enough
Two
Time Day Will
Once
Time Enough Day
Year
Course
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Neglect
Laughs
Same Time
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Young Man
Custom
Therefore
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Feels
Please
Reciprocal
General
Necessary
Same Time
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Knowledge
Facets
Reading
Reading Books
Various
Acquired
Books
Necessary
Studying
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Asked
Count
Hidden
Pocket
Pull
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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Majority
Mankind
Mass
Respectable
Certain Degree
Degree
Fools
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It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Folly
Fraud
Perceive
Detect
Expose
Shut
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Wiser
Merely
Nor
Pocket
Private
Pull
Strike
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Serious
Trifles
Matters
Flatters
Neither
Nor
Plays
Trusts
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Aim
Endure
Wit
Love Good Great
Love Good Fear
Admires
All People
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Aim
Despondency
Laziness
Perfection
Persevere
Unattainable
However
Nearer
Though
Whose
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Fitness
Health
Adaptation
All Things
Branches
Climate
Exercise
Hours
Perseverance
Retiring
Rising
Simple
Temperance
Health Fitness Exercise
Necessary
Regimen
Variations
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Breeding
Coarse
Contempt
Familiarity
Good Breeding
Intimacy
Mistress
Productive
Together
Absolutely
Good Man Wife
Aside
Days
Nights
Degenerate
Disgust
Ever
Infallibly
Lay
Well
Pass
Soon
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Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield /
Women
Growth
Serious
Trifles
Women Are
Child
Does
He
Women Man Children
Matters
Flatters
Forward
Larger
Neither
Nor
Plays
Sense
Trusts
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