Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Political, Politics

• The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Party, Character, Men

  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.627

• There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Political, Enemy, One Day

• Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Secret, Dexterity

  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.483

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