George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes (65 quotes)

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Famous George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Variant: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

“It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes about men

“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)

“Men who borrow their Opinions can never repay their Debts. They are Beggars by Nature, and can therefore never get a Stock to grow rich upon.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes about business

“The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Men make it such a point of honour to be fit for business that they forget to examine whether business is fit for a man.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“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, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax: Trending quotes

“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The People are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Fundamentals.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

“They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“Most Mens' Anger about Religion is as if two Men should quarrel for a Lady they neither of them care for.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“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, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

On King Charles II’s memory.
A Character of King Charles II (1750)

“If Men considered how many Things there are that Riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Anger.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms. It often reacheth into the next World, Death itself is not a Bar to it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Punishment.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“In this Age, when it is said of a Man, He knows how to live, it may be imply’d he is not very honest.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Hope is generally a wrong Guide, though it is very good Company by the way. It brusheth through Hedge and Ditch till it cometh to a great Leap, and there it is apt to fall and break its Bones.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“In your Clothes avoid too much Gaudy; do not value your self upon an Imbroidered Gown; and remember, that a reasonable Word, or an obliging Look, will gain you more respect, than all your fine Trappings.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“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, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Princes.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury : as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Prerogative, Power and Liberty.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Parties.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”