--- title: "George Savile Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "George Savile offers blunt, plain-spoken reflections on hope, desire and the limits of human understanding. Read all 41 quotes by George Savile on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## George Savile quotes 1. > Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things unneccesary. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 5. > Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 7. > A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. [Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 8. > A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. [Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 9. > A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. [Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 10. > A princely mind will undo a private family. [Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 11. > A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use. [Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 12. > Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. [Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/12/ "Permalink to quote 12") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 13. > Every single act either weakeneth or improveth our credit with other men; and as a habit of being just to our word will confirm, so a habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it. [Permalink to quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 14. > He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. [Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 15. > Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way. [Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 16. > If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. [Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 17. > In this Age, when it is said of a man, 'He knows how to live,' it may be implied he is not very honest. [Permalink to quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/17/ "Permalink to quote 17") 18. > In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. [Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 19. > It is a general mistake to to think the men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing. [Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") 20. > Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. [Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") 21. > Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. [Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/21/ "Permalink to quote 21") 22. > Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. [Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/22/ "Permalink to quote 22") 23. > Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. [Permalink to quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/23/ "Permalink to quote 23") 24. > Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. [Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/24/ "Permalink to quote 24") 25. > Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. [Permalink to quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/25/ "Permalink to quote 25") 26. > No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. [Permalink to quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 27. > Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. [Permalink to quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/27/ "Permalink to quote 27") 28. > Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. [Permalink to quote \#28](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/28/ "Permalink to quote 28") 29. > Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. [Permalink to quote \#29](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/29/ "Permalink to quote 29") 30. > Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. [Permalink to quote \#30](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/30/ "Permalink to quote 30") 31. > The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. [Permalink to quote \#31](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/31/ "Permalink to quote 31") 32. > The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory. [Permalink to quote \#32](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/32/ "Permalink to quote 32") 33. > The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. [Permalink to quote \#33](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/33/ "Permalink to quote 33") 34. > The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. [Permalink to quote \#34](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/34/ "Permalink to quote 34") 35. > The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. [Permalink to quote \#35](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/35/ "Permalink to quote 35") 36. > The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. [Permalink to quote \#36](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/36/ "Permalink to quote 36") 37. > The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. [Permalink to quote \#37](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/37/ "Permalink to quote 37") 38. > There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. [Permalink to quote \#38](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/38/ "Permalink to quote 38") 39. > They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money. [Permalink to quote \#39](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/39/ "Permalink to quote 39") 40. > When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. [Permalink to quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/George-Savile/40/ "Permalink to quote 40") ## Also attributed 1. > Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "George Savile Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/George-Savile", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Savile" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things unneccesary.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Savile" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Savile" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; 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