Virtues Vices Quotes by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet