Pleasure Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

— Lord Chesterfield

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing…

— Lord Chesterfield

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

— Lord Chesterfield

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

— Lord Chesterfield

Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones…

— Lord Chesterfield

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of…

— Lord Chesterfield

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no…

— 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

Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then…

— 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

When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that…

— Lord Chesterfield

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it…

— Lord Chesterfield

A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man…

— Lord Chesterfield

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures,…

— Lord Chesterfield