204 ordspråk av Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield föddes den 22 september 1694 och dog den 24 maart 1773 - brittisk statsman och diplomat.
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 When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

 Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

 Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears

 While I can crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can, in my narrow domestic spheres, to my fellow creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do

 Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.

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

 Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

 Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all

 Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

 Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman w

 Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted

 Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

 Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should

 Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

 Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.


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