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“There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Men #Order #Secret
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“Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Secret #Littles
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“Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Kings #Hero #Passion
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“Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Men #Imperfection #Weakness
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“To please people is a great step towards persuading them.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#People #Steps #Persuasion
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“Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Life #Success #Men
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“When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Passion #Men #Remember
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“Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Taste #Pleasure #Enjoy
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“Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Fall #Numbers #People
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“I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Lying #Mean #Vanity
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“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Friendship #Best Friend #People
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“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Advice #Return #Comeback
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“Take the tone of the company you are in.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Tone #Company
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“Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Time #Flying #Hours
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“Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Hate #Political #Sentimental
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“Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Vices #Cottages #Court
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“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Education #World #Closets
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“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.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Giving #Advice #World
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“If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Conviction #Convincing #Convince
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“To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Mankind
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“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Imagination #Betrayed #Want
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“The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Men #Differences #Laughing
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“There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Time #Years #Two
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“I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Two #People #Three
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“Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Rags #Dresses #Dirt
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“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Common Sense #Common #Truth Is
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“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Men #People #Shining
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“I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Men #Understanding #Care
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“Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Men #Dancing #Ballet
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“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.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
#Giving #Doe #Pleasure
