George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes
-
A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
-
A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.
-
A Princely Mind will undo a private Family.
-
Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
-
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
-
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
-
A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.
-
Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.
-
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
-
Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.
-
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
-
The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.