Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey famous quotes

03-26-2025

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Life #Ornaments #Half
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Military #Prejudice #Violence
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Nature #Two #Medicine
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Light #Creation #Comets
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Medicine #Preparation #Different
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Men #Long #Prejudice
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Lying #Ambition #Shining
Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Known
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Powerful #Imagination #Affection
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Obligation #Constrain
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Agonizing #Misguided #Wander
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#Taken #Men #Long

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