Quotes from Lord Chesterfield

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.

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

Common sense is the best sense I know of

There is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it it, than my enemies, by endeavouring, and that to no purpose, to undeceive them.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Sikap yang santun harus menghiasi orang yang berpengetahuan dan melicinkan jalannya dalam pergaulan.

I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer.

Well, then, good night to you; you have no objection, I hope, to my being drunk to-night, which I certainly will be.

All malt liquors fatten, or at least bloat; and I hope you do not deal much in them.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.