„Bedenke dies und präge es deinem Geiste ein, dass, wer nicht liebenswürdig ist, in Wahrheit überhaupt niemand ist im allgemeinen geselligen Verkehr.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
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Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Geburtstag: 22. September 1694
Todesdatum: 24. März 1773
Andere Namen: Philip Stanhope, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4º Conde de Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Chesterfield, IV° Conte di Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4. Earl of Chesterfield KG PC war ein britischer Staatsmann und Schriftsteller. Bis zum Tod seines Vaters 1726 war er als Lord Stanhope bekannt. Er ist heute vor allem als Schriftsteller bekannt.
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„Eher wird ein Unrecht verziehen als eine Beleidigung.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Ein kluger Mann lebt weder geistig noch finanziell über seine Verhältnisse.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Eine gute Unterhaltung erträgt so wenig einen Diktator wie ein freies Staatswesen.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Wenn im Herzen keine Bosheit ist, so sind immer Heiterkeit und Leichtigkeit in Miene und Manieren.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Du musst dich jetzt anstrengen oder nie.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Wer liebenswürdig ist, macht sich beinahe so viele Freunde, wie er Bekanntschaften macht.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengenden Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Die Spötterei ist eine höchst schädliche und gefährliche Waffe, wenn sie in ungeschickte und täppische Hände gerät.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Scherze nie mit Leuten, wenn du siehst, dass sie gerade ernst und nachdenklich sind.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengenden Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Urteilskraft ist nicht bei jeder Gelegenheit erforderlich, Takt aber immer.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„Deine Aufmerksamkeit sollte so beweglich sein, dass du sie augenblicklich auf ganz unterschiedliche Gegenstände und Personen richten kannst, die dir begegnen.“
— Philip Stanhope Chesterfield
Briefe über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden
„We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), Context: We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.
19 December 1749
„Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song,
Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure along.
All cares, but of love, banish far from your mind;
And those you may end, when you please to be kind.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley
„Mark in the meadows the ruin of Time;
Take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley
„Cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay,
And calm with your joys gently glide thro' the day.
The dews of the evening most carefully shun —
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley
„You foolish man, you do not understand your own foolish business.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Disputed, Attributed to Chesterfield by George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, in his 1833 edition of Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, such statements have been attributed to many others, such as Lord Chief Justice Campbell, William Henry Maule (in the form "You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business"), Sir William Harcourt, Lord Pembroke, Lord Westbury, and to an anonymous judge, and said to have been spoken in court to Garter King at Arms, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, or some other high-ranking herald, who had confused a "bend" with a "bar" or had demanded fees to which he was not entitled. George Bernard Shaw uses it in Pygmalion (1912) in the form, "The silly people dont [sic] know their own silly business." Similar remarks occur in Charles Jenner's The Placid Man: Or, The Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville (1770): "Sir Harry Clayton ... was perhaps far better qualified to have written a Peerage of England than Garter King at Arms, or Rouge Dragon, or any of those parti-coloured officers of the court of honor, who, as a great man complained on a late solemnity, are but too often so silly as not to know their own silly business." "Old Lord Pembroke" (Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke) is said by Horace Walpole (in a letter of 28 May 1774 to the Rev. William Cole) to have directed the quip, "Thou silly fellow! Thou dost not know thy own silly business," at John Anstis, Garter King at Arms. Edmund Burke also quotes such a remark in his "Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq." on 7 May 1789: "'Silly man, that dost not know thy own silly trade!' was once well said: but the trade here is not silly."
„Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
„We must not draw general conclusions from certain particular principles, though, in the main, true ones. We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will therefore always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in the pursuit of it. No. We are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), 19 December 1749
„I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.“
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), 5 February 1750
