Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Quotes

“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 changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.”

— 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 an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

“Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.”

— 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

“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