English Quotes

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 11, 2022

"In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2022

"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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2022

"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2022

"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 — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2022

"Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2022

"Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2022

"Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2022

"Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 3, 2022

"The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; 'they will both fall into the ditch'" Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2022

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2022

"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 27, 2022

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 15, 2022

"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 6, 2022

"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 24, 2021

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 15, 2021

"Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 2, 2021

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2021

"Character must be kept bright as well as clean." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2021

"I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 6, 2021