Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PCwas a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and...
men imperfection weakness
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
kings hero passion
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.
secret littles great-ones
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
character gambling play
Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.
deception capitalism
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
inspirational spokes splendid
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
equality men
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
men thinking should
A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
people way please
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
expression language
Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.
men doors blood
... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ......
turns justify maxims
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
book reading editors
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
business men people
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.