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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

British - Statesman | September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Man Survive Suicide Look May Sort

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

People Nothing Insult Bear More

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Rich Compliment Poor Always Return

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Women Men Well Hearts Women Are Led

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Fear Great Fools Degree Mankind Who

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Light Mask True Sight Virtue First

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Men Wise Think Enough Young Sober

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time Letters Returning Within Bow

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Brother Me You Inside Eat Pretty

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time Day Enough Year You Will

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Business Eyes Man Wrong Fraud Right

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Fashion You Nobody

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