If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
From Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
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 merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
5 perspectives
2 perspectives