Men Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

— Lord Chesterfield

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down

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When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

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Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

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There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.

— Lord Chesterfield

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

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A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

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Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to…

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So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day…

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It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

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Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting…

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Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

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There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is…

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their…

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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.

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... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a…

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A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income… Bear this truth always in your mind, that you…

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The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by…

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Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly…

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It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not…

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Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to…

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Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to…

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Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho…

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A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly…

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The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some…

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As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and…

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Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that…

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Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which…

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I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,…

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A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

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An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

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Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

— Lord Chesterfield

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

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A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

— Lord Chesterfield

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

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A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.

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Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

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Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

— Lord Chesterfield