Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. — 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 first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger. — 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 one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — 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 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 others. — Sir Fulke Greville 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 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 on meanness. — 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 have or… — Sir Fulke Greville 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 do the… — 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 it be… — Sir Fulke Greville 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
