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

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. Votes: 9

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Votes: 8

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. Votes: 6

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. Votes: 3

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. Votes: 3

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it. Votes: 3

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. Votes: 3

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. Votes: 3

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. Votes: 3

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. Votes: 3

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. Votes: 3

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. Votes: 3

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The past is the best way to suppose what may come. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. Votes: 0

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. Votes: 0

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. Votes: 0

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. Votes: 0

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. Votes: 0

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have Votes: 0

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. Votes: 0

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. Votes: 0