E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax famous quotes

03-24-2025

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Art #Philosophy #Thinking
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Business #Men #Lasts
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Men #Numbers #Cruelty
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Perfect #Weakness #Philosopher
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Education #Thinking #Oxford
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Life #Way #Good Company
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Party #Kind #Conspiracy
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Wise #Men #Views
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Fool #Firsts #Dialogue
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Spiritual #Society #World
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Men #Names #Enemy
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Winning #Argument #Contention
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Long #House #May
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Beauty #Dresses #Doe
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Gratitude #Men #World
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Men #Debt #Opinion
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Names #Numbers #Speak
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Men #Liberty #World
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Men #Two #Religion
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Law #Complaining #Lawyer
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Party #Ignorance #Men
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Gratitude
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

#Positive #Rivers #Noise

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