Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Lord David Cecil

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British biographer Lord David Cecil.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord" by courtesy, as a younger son of a marquess.

British - Biographer | April 9, 1902 - January 1, 1986

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A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

Lord David Cecil

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Lord David Cecil

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Lord David Cecil

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

Lord David Cecil

Power rests in tranquillity.

Lord David Cecil

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

Lord David Cecil

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

Lord David Cecil

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

Lord David Cecil