Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

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A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

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A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

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A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

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A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

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A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

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A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

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A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

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A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man… He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton’s prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

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A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

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Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

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