Quotes About Lord Chesterfield

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

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 respected, though they are by no means respectable.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.