Lord Chesterfield Quotes about Friendship

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Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, Trust, Love You

"The Modern Chesterfield".

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, People, Degrees

Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.55, Oxford Paperbacks

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, Fortune, Continuity

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.630

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, Blood, Ties

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Lord Chesterfield

Love, Friendship, Heart

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, Best Friend, Funny Friend

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

Lord Chesterfield

Friendship, Enmity, Strange

Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC