Philip Stanhope, IV conte di Chesterfield frasi celebri
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 106, pag. 148.
Origine: Da Letters, 1745. Citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Ettore Barelli e Sergio Pennacchietti, BUR, 2013. ISBN 9788858654644
Philip Stanhope, IV conte di Chesterfield: Frasi in inglese
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
Disputed
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)
“The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.”
1751
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
9 October 1746
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
10 August 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)
“He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.”
Character of Bolingbroke; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
18 March 1751
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.”
5 February 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.”
Character of Pulteney; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Take the tone of the company you are in.”
16 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
22 May 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
26 March 1754
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
16 March 1759
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.”
6 February 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
1 November 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
14 December 1756
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
21 September 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.”
9 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.”
1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Variante: I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
