Heath L'Estrange famous quotes

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.
-- Heath L'Estrange

#Men #Vanity

Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.
-- Heath L'Estrange

#Law #Names #Injustice

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
-- Heath L'Estrange

#Age #Fool #Youth

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
-- Heath L'Estrange

#Wisdom #Loss #Comfort

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
-- Heath L'Estrange

#Character #Enough #Honorable

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

No one man is superior to the game.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.