Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield Quotes

#1. Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#2. The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#3. Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#4. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#5. Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#6. When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#7. Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#8. The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#9. Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#10. Dispatch is the soul of business.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#12. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#13. In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield