Quotes by Halifax, Edward F.

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."

Halifax, Edward F. on gratitude   

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."

Halifax, Edward F. on law and lawyers
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"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."

Halifax, Edward F. on anger   

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

Halifax, Edward F. on anger   

"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."

Halifax, Edward F. on money   

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."

Halifax, Edward F. on names   

"Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts."

Halifax, Edward F. on opinions   

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."

Halifax, Edward F. on politics   

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."

Halifax, Edward F. on punishment   

"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

Halifax, Edward F. on evolution   

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

Halifax, Edward F. on beauty
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"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."

Halifax, Edward F. on chance
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"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."

Halifax, Edward F. on thoughts and thinking
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"Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide."

Halifax, Edward F. on time
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"True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."

Halifax, Edward F. on truth   

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

Halifax, Edward F. on colleges and universities