99 Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.