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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

You Praise Modesty Sure Angle Only

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge People More See May Give

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge World Only Closet Acquired

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Learning Knowledge Men World Reading

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Laughter Manners Folly Loud Ill

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Laughter Mind Nothing

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Man Child Forward Serious Matters

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.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Experience Mind Body Find More Most

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

People First Him Making He Makes

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Yourself You Others Open Conviction

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time Less Less Time Finds

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Me Same Vices Where Show Cottage

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