Quotes By Lord Chesterfield

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

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

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.

You must look into people as well as at them.