Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Justice, Judgment, All Occasions

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.352, Oxford University Press

• Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Justice, Ears

  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.304

• Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Men, Justice

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.100, OUP Oxford

• If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, People, Justice

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