What did Lord Chesterfield mean by: He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England Copy
+ Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Pleasure, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Advice, Praise, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ The more one works, the more willing one is to work. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Lord Chesterfield, Society, Willing, Work, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Age, Decay, Youth, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Heart, Moral, Sickness, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ To please people is a great step towards persuading them. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Lord Chesterfield, Persuasion, Steps, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Earth, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. - Jenny Mollen Actress and author
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself. - Harry Allen Overstreet
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. - Jane Austen Author · England
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. - Jane Austen Author · England
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. - Alfred Nobel Chemist · Sweden
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. - Aeschylus Dramatist · Greece
