Author Profile
George Savile
1726 – 1784 • English • Politician
29
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 29 quotesLaws 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.— George Savile
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.— George Savile
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.— George Savile
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.— George Savile