Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.
Lord ChesterfieldThere is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Lord ChesterfieldThe best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
Lord ChesterfieldSex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord ChesterfieldThe vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.
Lord Chesterfield