Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield

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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.

Tags: Liar, Fear, Heart

Lord Chesterfield

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Tags: Good, Thought, Reason

Lord Chesterfield

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Tags: Life, Experience, Human

Lord Chesterfield

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Tags: Nothing, Wanted, Show

Lord Chesterfield

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Tags: Help, Back, Give

Lord Chesterfield

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Tags: Health, Simple, Exercise

Lord Chesterfield

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Tags: Mind, Find, Married

Lord Chesterfield

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Tags: Freedom, Bad, Someone

Lord Chesterfield

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Tags: Humor, Bad, Person

Lord Chesterfield

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Tags: Life, Love, Through

Lord Chesterfield

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

Tags: Great, Narrative, Betrays

Lord Chesterfield

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Tags: Alone, May, Rude

Lord Chesterfield

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

Tags: Enough, Another, Reason

Lord Chesterfield

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

Tags: Society, Religion, Today

Lord Chesterfield

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.

Tags: Give, Advice, Next

Lord Chesterfield

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.

Tags: Must, Self, Ever

Lord Chesterfield

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Tags: Day, Live, Understand

Lord Chesterfield

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Tags: Life, Business, Cool

Lord Chesterfield