Nature Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

14 Nature quotes by Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield’s nature notes carry his characteristic polish, offering measured reflections that reveal both amusement and respect for the world beyond the drawing room.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

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In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

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Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a…

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Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is…

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion…

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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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How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established…

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Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress…

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The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's…

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Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the…

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This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them…

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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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No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed…

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I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

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Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the…

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Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where…

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