Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

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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You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet