30 Quotes by E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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.

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

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.