520 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

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

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.