“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.”
Letter to his godson, No.112 (undated)
Филип Дормер Стенхоп Честерфилд: Цитаты на английском языке
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“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
29 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Контексте: We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.
5 September 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
1 July 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
11 May 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
17 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
16 March 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
25 December 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
6 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
"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
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
19 November 1745
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
"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
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
22 May 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Mark in the meadows the ruin of Time;
Take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime.”
"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