Idleness is the holiday of fools.
More Quotes from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield:
Style is the dress of thoughts ... if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved A coward.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility strength alone will not do.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows someone thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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