Sir George Savile quote: "In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings."

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
SIR GEORGE SAVILE

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

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is e...
GEORGE SAVILE

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
GEORGE SAVILE

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on...
GEORGE SAVILE

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
GEORGE SAVILE

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
GEORGE SAVILE

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna...
GEORGE SAVILE

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

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
GEORGE SAVILE

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters
GEORGE SAVILE

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna...
GEORGE SAVILE

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
GEORGE SAVILE

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting
GEORGE SAVILE

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else
GEORGE SAVILE

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being j...
GEORGE SAVILE

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes
GEORGE SAVILE

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers
GEORGE SAVILE

In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very hone...
GEORGE SAVILE

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory
GEORGE SAVILE

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer
GEORGE SAVILE

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much
GEORGE SAVILE

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and rememb...
GEORGE SAVILE

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
GEORGE SAVILE

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you
GEORGE SAVILE

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
GEORGE SAVILE

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but ...
GEORGE SAVILE

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, g...
GEORGE SAVILE

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on...
GEORGE SAVILE

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms
GEORGE SAVILE

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught
GEORGE SAVILE

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding
GEORGE SAVILE

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner
GEORGE SAVILE

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether th...
GEORGE SAVILE

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it
GEORGE SAVILE

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead
GEORGE SAVILE

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE

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

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everythi...
GEORGE SAVILE

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen
GEORGE SAVILE

Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.
GEORGE SAVILE HALIFAX

Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, LORD HALIFAX

A lion, for instance, which in nature is not a very distinctive object, was portrayed, for greater d...
SIR GEORGE BELLEW

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapon...
SIR GEORGE PORTER

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX

Further, we can now explain the widespread custom of covering up mirrors or turning them to the wall...
SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER

Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER MACFARREN

In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.
HON. SIR GEORGE EULAS FOSTER

They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaien...
HON. SIR GEORGE EULAS FOSTER

Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM

There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR

There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR

It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD

Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH

Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry ...
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compel...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE

Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betak...
SIR EDWARD COKE

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and ...
SIR EDWARD COKE

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offe...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia i...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will no...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because h...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the ch...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettyne...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn o...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thril...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundatio...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British E...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealw...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to hav...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sur...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful se...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matte...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Bal...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Uni...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals to...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
SIR CLAUS MOSER

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing...
SIR PETER IMBERT

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN

No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

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In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

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