99 Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

You must look into people as well as at them.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

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

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

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.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.