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Lord Chesterfield Quotes

«A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: magnifies, magnifying, microscope, microscopes, The Microscope, trifled, trifling
«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.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: absent, absents, contempt, Dead Man, plainly, silently, The Dead, The Dead Man
«Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | About: Women | Keywords: characteristics
«Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | About: Mankind, Men | Keywords: crimes, imperfections, unwilling, weaknesses
«Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: acquired, the closet
«It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: buffoon, buffoons, jokes, loud, reduce, shines, trite, vivacity
«Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: discretion, occasions
«The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | About: Poverty | Keywords: advising, compliment
«A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: exceptionally, novel
«Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: breeding, denial, good nature, good sense, self-denial
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