Lord Chesterfield Quotes
+3History is a useless heap of facts.
- Lord Chesterfield
+2Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Wear 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.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Being 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
+1Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
- Lord Chesterfield