204 ordspråk av Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield föddes den 22 september 1694 och dog den 24 marts 1773 - brittisk statsman och diplomat.
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Sex: Nöjet är övergående, ställningen är skrattretande och omkostnaden är alldeles för hög.

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

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

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.

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

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

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

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

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

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