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E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax,, known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1936–1938, working closely with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. However, after Kristallnacht and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 he was one of those who pushed for a new policy of attempting to deter further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland.

British - Celebrity | April 16, 1881 - December 23, 1959

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In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. — © E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. — © E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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