All Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
- Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have… Learning
- Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. Bragging
- Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least. Advice
- Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it… Burden
- It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of… Always Right
- A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some… Great
- In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a… Certain
- Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. Answering
- Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. Care
- Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it… Asked