204 ordspråk av Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield föddes den 22 September 1694 och dog den 24 März 1773 - brittisk statsman och diplomat.
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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

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.

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.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Few people do business well who do nothing else

Affärslivet

In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man, who cannot believe in anything else, are both insane

Menn

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

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

Kvinner

Män är mycket mer ovilliga att få sina svagheter och sina brister kända än sina brott.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes

Menneskeheten

Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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