Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield was an English statesman and a man of letters (male author).
Voltaire described him as “only Englishman who ever argued for the art of pleasing as the first duty of life.”
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Library of Quotations
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
— Chesterfield
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
– Lord Chesterfield
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Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.
—Chesterfield
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I recommend to you to take care of the minutes for hours will take care of themselves.
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Many people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
– Chesterfield
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
– Chesterfield
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Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
—Chesterfield.
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Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
– Chesterfield
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
~Lord Chesterfield
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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.
– Chesterfield
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When a man is once in fashion; all he does is right.
– Chesterfield
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Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
– Chesterfield
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