Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

The party is defined by the people that are in it, not necessarily the politicians.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.