The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Letter to Alexei Suvorin, 4 May 1889
3.85 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1882-1959
See E. L. Atkinson (1.111)
3.86 Lord Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield) 1694-1773
Unlike my subject will I frame my song,
It shall be witty and it sha’n’t be long.
Epigram on ‘Long’ Sir Thomas Robinson in the ‘Dictionary of National Biography’
The picture, placed the busts between,
Gives satire all his strength:
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly at full length.
‘On Mr Nash’s Present of his own Picture at Full Length, fixed between the Busts of Mr Pope and Sir Is.
Newton’
In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
‘Advice to his Son’ (1775) ‘Rules for Conversation: Private Scandal’
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have
anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
‘Letters to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq.’ (1817) Letter to A. C. Stanhope, 12 October 1765
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
Letter 142 in the Earl of Carnarvon (ed.) ‘Letters...to his Godson and Successor’(1890)
Cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
Letter to his godson and heir, to be delivered after his own death, in the Earl of Carnarvon (ed.) ‘Letters...to
his Godson and Successor’(1890)
In my opinion, parsons are very like men, and neither the better nor the worse for wearing a
black gown.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 5 April 1746
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 4 October 1746
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 9 October 1746
Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 2 October 1747
Take the tone of the company that you are in.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 9 October 1747
Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 16 October 1747
I recommend to you to take care of minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
‘Letters to his Son’ (1774) 6 November 1747.