Famous quotes by Statesmans

"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The more one works, the more willing one is to work"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"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 out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Distrust all those who love you extremely, upon a very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Character must be kept bright as well as clean"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

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