41 Quotes by George Savile

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing