Inspirational Quotes by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (British Statesman, Writer)

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Hope

A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king’s.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Business

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Business

The best way to suppose what may come is to remember what is past.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Experience

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Speech

Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Money, Opinions

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Opinion, Thinking, Opinions

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Difficulty

When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Freedom, Revolutions, Revolutionaries, Revolution, Victory

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Truth, Humility, Merit

The plainer the dress with greater luster does beauty appear.—Virtue is the greatest ornament, and good sense the best equipage.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Beauty, Dress

The mind, like the body, is subject to be hurt by everything it taketh for a remedy.
—George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Topics: Mind

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