Quotes By Lord Chesterfield

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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

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

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

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

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.