Lord Chesterfield Quotes about Age

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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

Lord Chesterfield

Judging, Age, Merit

'Letters to his Son' (1774) 27 February 1748

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Lord Chesterfield

Education, Giving, Age

"Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

Lord Chesterfield

Boredom, Age, Youth

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

Lord Chesterfield

Heart, Age, Knaves

"The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author".

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Lord Chesterfield

Retirement, Age, May

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.307, Oxford University Press

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

Lord Chesterfield

Temptation, Feelings, Age

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Lord Chesterfield

Health, Age, Answers

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

Lord Chesterfield

Giving, Age, Amusement