Author Profile
William Cobbett
1763 – 1835 • English • Politician
25
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 25 quotesThe great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.— William Cobbett
Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.— William Cobbett
Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.— William Cobbett
To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?— William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.— William Cobbett
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.— William Cobbett
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.— William Cobbett
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.— William Cobbett
To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.— William Cobbett
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.— William Cobbett
The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.— William Cobbett
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.— William Cobbett
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.— William Cobbett
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.— William Cobbett