George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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

Hope , Way

“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)

Clothes

“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

Law , Suffering , Personality

“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

Understanding

“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

Memory

“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

Understanding , Learning

“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.

Nature

“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

People , Victory

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

Men

“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

World

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

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

Forgetting

“Suspicion seldom wanteth Food to keep it up in Health and Vigour. It feedeth upon every thing it seeth, and is not curious in its Diet.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

Health , Food

“A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.”

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

Business , Thinking

“A Princely Mind will undo a private Family.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

Family

“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

World , Business , Help

“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

Men , Business , Forgetting

“A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

“It is a general Mistake to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

Men , Thinking