George Savile Quotes

#1. Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

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#2. The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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#3. There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

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#4. Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

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#5. A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

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#6. Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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

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#8. The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

#9. 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.

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#10. He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#11. Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

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#12. When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

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#13. Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#14. Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#15. 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.

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#16. There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#17. Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

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#18. Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#19. A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

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#20. If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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#21. Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.

George Hamilton

#22. Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

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#23. 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

#24. They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

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#25. If politicians would think more they would act less.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

#26. A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

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#27. A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#28. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

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#29. Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#30. Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

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#31. Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

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#32. The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

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#33. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

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#34. Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

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#35. 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.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#36. To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

#37. The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

#38. Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

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

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#40. A princely mind will undo a private family.

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#41. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

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#42. The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

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#43. Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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#44. Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#45. You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#46. Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax