What did Lord Chesterfield mean by: You must look into people, as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield Politician · England Copy
+ Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Appearance, Perception, Value, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. Author, June 12, 2023January 2, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Inferiority, Jealousy, Resentment, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Importance, Perspective, Weakness, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
Women’s beauty, like men’s wit, is generally fatal to the owners. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Beauty, Fatalism, Wit, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Attainability, Persistence, Possibility, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. Author, July 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Fashion, Identity, Society, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Gender, Hierarchy, Respect, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
Wear your knowledge like your watch – in you pocket – and don’t pull it out just for show. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Chesterfield, Humility, Knowledge, Practicality, 0 Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
