Giving Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Give Dayrolles a chair.

— Lord Chesterfield

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

— Lord Chesterfield

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

— Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it…

— Lord Chesterfield

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

— Lord Chesterfield

It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer…

— Lord Chesterfield

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to…

— Lord Chesterfield

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell…

— Lord Chesterfield

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all…

— Lord Chesterfield

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them…

— Lord Chesterfield

Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or…

— Lord Chesterfield

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with…

— Lord Chesterfield

Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but…

— Lord Chesterfield

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions.…

— Lord Chesterfield