Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Friendship
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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.
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Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
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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.
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In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
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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.'
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The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
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Lord Chesterfield
- Born: September 22, 1694
- Died: March 24, 1773
- Occupation: British Statesman
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