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...
funny pleasure pastime
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
family gossip people
Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.
family father son
Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.
wise wisdom passion
Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.
vegetables dinner culinary
Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.
fashion men doe
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
life success men
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
taste pleasure enjoy
Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
eye doors ears
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.
good-man return manners
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
laughing use reason
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
beauty flattery gross
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
kings hero passion
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.
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Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.