Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. — Sir Fulke Greville Comedy Copy Share Image
A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil. — Sir Fulke Greville Men Copy Share Image
Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. — Sir Fulke Greville Comedy Copy Share Image
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. — Sir Fulke Greville Funny Copy Share Image
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. — Sir Fulke Greville Avarice Copy Share Image
Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell? — Sir Fulke Greville Doubt Copy Share Image
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others. — Sir Fulke Greville Courage Copy Share Image
To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville Constitution Copy Share Image
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they… — Sir Fulke Greville Child Copy Share Image
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with… — Sir Fulke Greville Body Copy Share Image
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the… — Sir Fulke Greville Approach Copy Share Image
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating… — Sir Fulke Greville Argument Copy Share Image
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. — Sir Fulke Greville Ignorance Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. — Sir Fulke Greville Freedom Copy Share Image
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. — Sir Fulke Greville Appreciation Copy Share Image
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville Feminism Copy Share Image
As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. — Sir Fulke Greville Charity Copy Share Image
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — Sir Fulke Greville Dimensions Copy Share Image
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. — Sir Fulke Greville Body Copy Share Image
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth?… — Sir Fulke Greville Blind Copy Share Image
There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than… — Sir Fulke Greville Companion Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor… — Sir Fulke Greville Comedy Copy Share Image
We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings… — Sir Fulke Greville Fashion Copy Share Image
