Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Theresa Villiers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Theresa Villiers.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Theresa Anne Villiers is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet since 2005, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, Villiers was Minister of State for Rail and Aviation from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2020.

British - Politician | Born: March 5, 1968

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What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

Theresa Villiers

She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

Theresa Villiers

For all true love is grounded on esteem.

Theresa Villiers

We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.

Theresa Villiers

Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.

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A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

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Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.

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I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.

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Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

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O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

Theresa Villiers