Frasi di George Saville Halifax

George Savile, primo marchese di Halifax , è stato un politico e scrittore inglese.

Favorito dei re d'Inghilterra Carlo II Stuart e Giacomo II Stuart, venne creato pari del regno con il conferimento dei titoli di visconte prima e di marchese poi. Nel 1672 prese parte al Consiglio Privato del re, ricoprendo cariche importanti sino all'ascesa di Giacomo II, che lo nominò Presidente del Consiglio del re. Nel 1686, vista la sua fede anglicana e visto che preferiva non schierarsi né con il partito Tory, né con quello Whig, Giacomo II tolse Halifax dalla Presidenza e lo depose dalle cariche, come fece con i fratelli Hyde, suoi cognati. Dopo la caduta di Giacomo II in seguito alla gloriosa rivoluzione, Guglielmo III nominò Halifax Depositario del Sigillo Privato con libero accesso alla persona del re.

Sposò Lady Dorothy Spencer , figlia di Henry Spencer, I conte di Sunderland e sorella di Robert Spencer. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Novembre 1633 – 5. Aprile 1695   •   Altri nomi George Halifax, George Savile, I marchese di Halifax, Lord Halifax
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“Colui che non lascia niente al caso raramente farà cose in modo sbagliato, ma farà molte poche cose.”

Citazioni di George Savile
Origine: Citato in Guido Almansi, Il filosofo portatile, TEA, Milano, 1991.

“La miglior qualifica per un profeta è avere buona memoria.”

Citazioni di George Savile
Origine: Citato in Dizionario mondiale di Storia, Rizzoli Larousse, Milano, 2003, p. 556. ISBN 88-525-0077-4

George Saville Halifax: Frasi in inglese

“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Variante: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.”

The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)

“The People are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.”

Of Fundamentals.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.”

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“Most Mens' Anger about Religion is as if two Men should quarrel for a Lady they neither of them care for.”

Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.”

Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“If Men considered how many Things there are that Riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”

Of Anger.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.”

Of Punishment.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.”

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

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