Charles Buxton Quotes

Charles Buxton was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament.

Buxton was born on 18 November 1822 in Cromer, Norfolk, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet, a notable brewer, MP and social reformer, and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a partner in the brewery of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, & Co in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, and then an MP. He served as Liberal MP for Newport, Isle of Wight , Maidstone and East Surrey . His son Sydney Buxton was also an MP and governor of South Africa.

✵ 18. November 1823 – 10. August 1871
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Famous Charles Buxton Quotes

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 158

“Silence is the severest criticism.”

Often misquoted as "Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 57

“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 25.

“One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily."”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 190

Charles Buxton Quotes

“To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 122

“How strangely easy difficult things are!”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 83

“All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.”

Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 189

“It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.”

Reported to be in his pamphlet How to Stop Drunkenness in Grappling with the Monster http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13509/13509.txt by T. S. Arthur
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