Lord Chesterfield Quotes & Quotations

Lord Chesterfield Quotes

» Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

» A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.

» The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

» Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

» 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.

» 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.

» Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

» The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

» To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

» Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

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