Deceived Quotes by Henry Bolingbroke

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him…

— Henry Bolingbroke

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles,…

— Henry Bolingbroke

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

— Henry Bolingbroke

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

— Henry Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

— Henry Bolingbroke