States Quotes by E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them.…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax