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George Savile Quotes
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Type: Politician Quotes Category: English Politician Quotes Date of Birth: July 18, 1726 Date of Death: January 10, 1784 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: George Savile Related Authors: Estelle Morris Jeffrey Archer Harold MacMillan William Cobbett Anne Campbell Algernon Sydney Peter Schuyler |
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
George Savile A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. George Savile A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. George Savile A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. George Savile A princely mind will undo a private family. George Savile Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. George Savile He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. George Savile Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way. George Savile If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. George Savile In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. George Savile Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. George Savile Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. George Savile Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. George Savile Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. George Savile Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. George Savile Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. George Savile No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. George Savile Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. George Savile Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. George Savile Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. George Savile Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. George Savile Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. George Savile The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. George Savile The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. George Savile The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. George Savile The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. George Savile There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. George Savile They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. George Savile When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. George Savile |
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