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13 quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Stanhope by Roubiliac, 1745, Victoria and Albert Museum Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters. He was born in London and was known as Lord Stanhope until his father's death in 1726. After being educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he went on the Grand Tour of the continent. The death of Queen Anne and the accession of King George I opened...
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

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

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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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

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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... →

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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

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

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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

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Take the tone of the company you are in.

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must... →

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