Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.
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
A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
