Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, >>

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cy >>

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first si >>

Quotations about Pleasure

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. >>

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nea >>

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the pla >>

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Chesterfield, Lord