George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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
There is…no fundamental, but that every supreme power must be arbitrary.
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
Nothing would more contribute to make a Man wise, than to have always an Enemy in his view.
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
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
State business is a cruel trade; good nature is a bungler in it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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
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
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
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
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both of their parents.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The struggling for knowledge hath a pleasure in it like that of wrestling with a fine woman.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax