George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - Word Quotes

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This innocent word Trimmer signifieth no more than this, that if men are together in a boat, and one part of the company would weigh it down on one side, another would make it lean as much to the contrary.

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

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

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

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