Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke famous quotes

03-18-2025

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Blood #Atheism #Delight
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Vanity #Law #Sick
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Men #Assessment #Deceived
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Flower #May #Taste
You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Country #Men #Prejudice
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Beauty #Examination #Increase
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Laughter #Men #Creatures
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Real #Ancestry #Birth
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Fire #People #Masters
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Inspiration #Ideas #Giving
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Pleasure #Young
Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Boys #Men #Might
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Country #Men #Practice
How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Men #Generosity #Giving
Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Hate #Fire #Opposites
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Looks #Genius
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Passion #Ambition #Character
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Ambition #Men #Two
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Truth #Eye #Mind
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Men #Views #Strange
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Men #Speech #Parrots
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Errors #Roots #Comfort

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