Top 77 Quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.