Quote

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

Lord Chesterfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lord Chesterfield
Modes
Everywhere
Nature
Human
Humans
Different

More quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Image
Never write down your speeches beforehand if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own for men in general are very much alike and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Give Dayrolles a chair.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value but most prized when polished.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Mind not only what people say, but how they say it and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.
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