Lord Chesterfield Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort to other.	Flattery
2	The vulgar often laugh, but seldom smile; whereas wellbred people often smile, but seldom laugh.	Laughter
3	In matters of marriage and religion I never give advice, for I will have no man's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.	Advice
4	When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.	Advice
5	Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.	Advice
6	I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read, what blockheads wrote.	Antiquity
7	The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of a superior genius.	Attention
8	Let the great book of the world be your principle study.	Bible
9	You must look into people, as well as at them.	Character
10	Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.	Conversation

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