George Savile, 1. Marquess of Halifax war ein englischer Politiker und Autor.
“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Variante: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Of Fundamentals.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
On King Charles II’s memory.
A Character of King Charles II (1750)
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Of Anger.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Of Punishment.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
