Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

“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.”

“Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.”

“The more one works, the more willing one is to work.”

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

“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”

“Character must be kept bright as well as clean.”

“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

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

“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”

“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”

“When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise”

“If you will please people, you must please them in their own way”

“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.”

“Mens minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate”

“Its sad for a girl to reach the age Where men consider her charmless, But its worse for a man to attain the age Where the girls consider him harmless”

“The man that makes a character, makes foes.”

“Only do what your heart tells you.”

“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, its a cure.”