Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - Love Quotes

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield