Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Albert Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England."

English - Statesman | September 13, 1520 - August 4, 1598

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Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

What! All this for a song?

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley