George Savile Quotes


"A husband without faults is a dangerous observer."
- George Savile
(Related: HusbFaults)

"A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner."
- George Savile
(Related: Thought, Man, May)

"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
- George Savile
(Related: Man, Patience)

"A princely mind will undo a private family."
- George Savile
(Related: Family, Mind, Will)

"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."
- George Savile
(Related: Forget, Man, Teaching, Vanity)

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."
- George Savile
(Related: Chance, Nothing, Will)

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
- George Savile
(Related: Hope, Company, Wrong)

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
- George Savile
(Related: Laws, Lawyers)

"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
(Related: Laws)

"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."
- George Savile
(Related: Love, Friends, Passion)

"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
- George Savile
(Related: Malice)

"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
- George Savile
(Related: Danger, Difficulty, Understanding, Will)

"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
(Related: Business, Reason)

"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."
- George Savile
(Related: May, Past)

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Horses, May)

"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."
- George Savile
(Related: Money, May, Opinion, Will)

"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."
- George Savile
(Related: Sight, Vice)

"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Being, Man)

"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."
- George Savile
(Related: Memory)

"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
(Related: Cunning, Fool, Knave, Man, Play, Weakness, Wit)

"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Virtue, Crime, Popularity, Will)

"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much."
- George Savile
(Related: Nature)

"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
- George Savile
(Related: Enemy, Man, Nothing)

"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."
- George Savile
(Related: Nothing, Reason)

"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Jewels, Man, Memory, Old)

"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."
- George Savile
(Related: People, Victory, Liberty)

"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Speech, Understanding)