Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
Lord Chesterfield
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lord Chesterfield
Wells
Well
Make
Like
Promise
Better
More quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.
Lord Chesterfield
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.
Lord Chesterfield
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
Lord Chesterfield
If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
Lord Chesterfield
It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.
Lord Chesterfield
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Lord Chesterfield
Real friendship is a slow grower.
Lord Chesterfield
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Lord Chesterfield
There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today
Lord Chesterfield
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
Lord Chesterfield
This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.
Lord Chesterfield
Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal deserve little, and you shall have but a little and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
Lord Chesterfield
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
Lord Chesterfield
Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.
Lord Chesterfield
Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.
Lord Chesterfield
The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
Lord Chesterfield