If you will please people, you must please them in their own way. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties... — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over” — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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