Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. >>

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatev >>

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. >>

Quotations about Indolence

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses in >>

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an afte >>

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually >>

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Chesterfield, Lord