EOEarl Of Chesterfield

56 collected words

Earl Of Chesterfield

Life dates: 1694 AD — 1773 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1733 AD

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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02c. 1733 AD

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

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03c. 1733 AD

Sacrifice to the Graces.

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04c. 1733 AD

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

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05c. 1733 AD

Style is the dress of thoughts.

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06c. 1733 AD

Despatch is the soul of business.

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07c. 1733 AD

Chapter of accidents.

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08c. 1733 AD

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

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09c. 1733 AD

Unlike my subject now shall be my song; It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long.

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10c. 1733 AD

The dews of the evening most carefully shun,— Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

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11c. 1733 AD

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

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12c. 1733 AD

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

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13c. 1733 AD

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

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14c. 1733 AD

Few people do business well who do nothing else.

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15c. 1733 AD

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

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16c. 1733 AD

Never hold any one 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.

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17c. 1733 AD

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.

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18c. 1733 AD

Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.

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19c. 1733 AD

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

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20c. 1733 AD

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

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21c. 1733 AD

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

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22c. 1733 AD

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

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23c. 1733 AD

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

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24c. 1733 AD

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.

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