Comedy Quotes by Sir Fulke Greville

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

— Sir Fulke Greville

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

— Sir Fulke Greville

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

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

— Sir Fulke Greville

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

— Sir Fulke Greville

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 on meanness.

— Sir Fulke Greville

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

— Sir Fulke Greville

We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the…

— Sir Fulke Greville

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

— Sir Fulke Greville

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be…

— Sir Fulke Greville

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

— Sir Fulke Greville

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

— Sir Fulke Greville