520 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.