Quote

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Lord Chesterfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lord Chesterfield
Must
Way
Make
People
Tolerance
Please
Cannot
Take

More quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Image
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Human nature is the same everywhere the modes only are different.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
One should always think of what one is about when one is learning, one should not think of play and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
Lord Chesterfield
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
Image
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
The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Image
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
Lord Chesterfield