"Widger, David - Quotations of Lord Chesterfield" - читать интересную книгу автора (Widger David)

Spare the persons while you lash the crimes.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in
company unless desired: the producing of the one unasked, implies that
you are weary of the company; and the producing of the other unrequired,
will make the company weary of you.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. Conceal all
your learning carefully....

A man of the world knows the force of flattery; but then he knows how,
when, and where to give it; he proportions his dose to the constitution
of the patient. He flatters by application, by inference, by comparison,
by hint, and seldom directly.


Absurd romances of the two last centuries
Advocate, the friend, but not the bully of virtue
Assurance and intrepidity
Attention
Author is obscure and difficult in his own language
Characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed
Commanding with dignity, you must serve up to it with diligence
Complaisance to every or anybody's opinion
Conceal all your learning carefully
Connections
Contempt
Content yourself with mediocrity in nothing
Dance to those who pipe
Decides peremptorily upon every subject
Desire to please, and that is the main point
Desirous to make you their friend
Despairs of ever being able to pay
Difference in everything between system and practice
Dignity to be kept up in pleasures, as well as in business
Distinction between simulation and dissimulation
Do not mistake the tinsel of Tasso for the gold of Virgil
Doing what may deserve to be written
Done under concern and embarrassment, must be ill done
Dressed as the generality of people of fashion are
Economist of your time
Establishing a character of integrity and good manners
Feed him, and feed upon him at the same time
Flattery
Fortune stoops to the forward and the bold
Frivolous and superficial pertness
Gentlemen, who take such a fancy to you at first sight
Guard against those who make the most court to you
Have no pleasures but your own
If you will persuade, you must first please