Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, on >>

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. >>

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

Quotations about Aphorisms and Epigrams

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or >>

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are >>

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world l >>

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Chesterfield, Lord