Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PCwas a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and...
book reading cat
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
wise men advice
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
self denial littles
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
learning people watches
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.
funny giving advice
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
children men play
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.
country travel nature
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.
age decay youth
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
character men personality
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.
anticipation danger invites
Fear manifested invites danger...
children growth only-child
Women, then, are only children of a larger growth
scandal thieves cases
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
pleasure
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
real men thinking
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.