169 ordspråk av Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield föddes den 22 September 1694 och dog den 24 März 1773
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 Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance

 Love and cowardice are really the same thing.

 Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

 Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished

 Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

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

 Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds

 Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

 Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

 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.

 Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

 Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are

 Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person

 Never hold anyone by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them

 Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.


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