Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#cottage #courts #me #same #show

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#hearts #led #much #oftener #than

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#business #grant #heard #his #man

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hate #interest #love #neither #nor

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brow #dissolves #fairest #flying #hours

The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#willing #work #works

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#doubtless #his #lasting #lasting peace #man

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#always #compliment #poor #return #rich

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#mankind #must #them

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#frequent #great #imagination #narrative #recourse