All Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Quotes
- Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. Alas
- One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many… Catching
- How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on… Certain
- Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay… Breast
- Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. Always Looks
- There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… Ambition
- Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other… Ambition
- The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun. Better
- Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is… Agreeable
- Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as… Capable
- Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. Boys
- Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. Business
- Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the… All
- No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Assessment
- You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he… Ask
- The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. Beauty
- Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at? Creature
- When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. Accompanies
- Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be. Agree
- Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy. Gives