520 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.