Quote

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Lord Chesterfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lord Chesterfield
Always
Robbery
Receiver
Thief
Scandal
Thieves
Case
Cases
Thought

More quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Image
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
If you love music hear it go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light brings him into a great deal of bad company and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
History is but a confused heap of facts.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life returns are equally expected for both.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield