“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Letter to his godson, No.112 (undated)
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“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.”
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)
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)
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.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
5 September 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
11 May 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
17 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
25 December 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Letter
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
6 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
19 November 1745
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.”
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