99 Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.