George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

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

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
The knowledge that is got without pains is kept without pleasure.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
After a revolution, you see the same men in the drawing-room, and within a week the same flatterers.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
If Men would think how often their own Words are thrown at their Heads, they would less often let them go out of their Mouths.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
There is…no fundamental, but that every supreme power must be arbitrary.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
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
Men in business are in as much danger from those that work under them, as from those that work against them.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
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
A degree of fear sharpeneth, the excess of it stupifieth.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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