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The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Lord Chesterfield
People, Judging, Understanding

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

Lord Chesterfield
Beautiful, Understanding, Ugly

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield
Fashion, Understanding, Mind
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.127, Oxford University Press

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

Lord Chesterfield
Fashion, Men, Understanding
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.169

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

Lord Chesterfield
Heart, Understanding, Influence
Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield
Beautiful, Women, Understanding
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Lord Chesterfield
Men, Understanding, Culture

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Lord Chesterfield
Ignorance, Understanding, Weak
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.629

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