Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by George Savile

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet of Thornhill FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1759 to 1783.

English - Politician | July 18, 1726 - January 10, 1784

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

George Savile

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

George Savile

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

George Savile

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

George Savile

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

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 knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile

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

George Savile

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

George Savile

A princely mind will undo a private family.