Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield: Likeness

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was British statesman and man of letters. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield: 130 quotes3 likes

“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

29 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

1 July 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song,
Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure along.
All cares, but of love, banish far from your mind;
And those you may end, when you please to be kind.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley

“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Generally attributed to Lord Chesterfield, the first publication of this yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851), with the first attribution to Chesterfield as yet located in: Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate
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“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

22 February 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.””

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)