George Saville Halifax nejznámější citáty
George Saville Halifax: Citáty anglicky
“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Varianta: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
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)
Of Fundamentals.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.”
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
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.”
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.”
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.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”
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.”
On King Charles II’s memory.
A Character of King Charles II (1750)
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”
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.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
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.”
Of Punishment.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
