“Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.”
2 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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14 April 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Dispatch is the soul of business.”
5 February 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”
The French attribute this to the painter Nicolas Poussin (born 15 June 1594) "Ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait vaut la peine d'être bien fait"
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“The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.”
To Solomon Dayrolles (16 February 1753)
7 February 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
15 January 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.”
20 July 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
15 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“You foolish man, you do not understand your own foolish business.”
Attributed to Chesterfield by George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, in his 1833 edition of Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, such statements have been attributed to many others, such as Lord Chief Justice Campbell, William Henry Maule (in the form "You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business"), Sir William Harcourt, Lord Pembroke, Lord Westbury, and to an anonymous judge, and said to have been spoken in court to Garter King at Arms, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, or some other high-ranking herald, who had confused a "bend" with a "bar" or had demanded fees to which he was not entitled. George Bernard Shaw uses it in Pygmalion (1912) in the form, "The silly people dont [sic] know their own silly business." Similar remarks occur in Charles Jenner's The Placid Man: Or, The Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville (1770): "Sir Harry Clayton ... was perhaps far better qualified to have written a Peerage of England than Garter King at Arms, or Rouge Dragon, or any of those parti-coloured officers of the court of honor, who, as a great man complained on a late solemnity, are but too often so silly as not to know their own silly business." "Old Lord Pembroke" (Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke) is said by Horace Walpole (in a letter of 28 May 1774 to the Rev. William Cole) to have directed the quip, "Thou silly fellow! Thou dost not know thy own silly business," at John Anstis, Garter King at Arms. Edmund Burke also quotes such a remark in his "Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq." on 7 May 1789: "'Silly man, that dost not know thy own silly trade!' was once well said: but the trade here is not silly."
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2 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
6 February 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Unlike my subject will I frame my song,
It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.”
Epigram on ("Long") Sir Thomas Robinson
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
8 May 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.”
22 February 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
Generally attributed to Lord Chesterfield, the first publication of this yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851), with the first attribution to Chesterfield as yet located in: Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate
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22 February 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
4 October 1746
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
15 January 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
6 December 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)