Frases de George Saville Halifax
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George Savile, 1.º Marquês de Halifax foi um político inglês. Ele está enterrado na Abadia de Westminster. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Novembro 1633 – 5. Abril 1695   •   Outros nomes George Halifax, George Savile, I marchese di Halifax, Lord Halifax
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George Saville Halifax Frases famosas

“Não há nada mais feio do que a razão, quando ela não está do nosso lado.”

A character of King Charles the Second: and political, moral, and miscellaneous thoughts and reflections. By George Savile, marquis of Halifax‎ - Página 178 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&pg=PA178, George Savile Halifax, George Savile Halifax (Marquis of) - Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - 183 páginas
Fonte: Revista Caras, 13 de Setembro de 2006.
Nothing hath an uglier look to us than reason when it is not of our side.

“Não se enforca um homem por ele ter roubado cavalos, mas para que os cavalos não sejam mais roubados.”

Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.
A character of King Charles the Second: and political, moral, and miscellaneous thoughts and reflections. By George Savile, marquis of Halifax‎ - Página 114 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&pg=PA114, George Savile Halifax, George Savile Halifax (Marquis of) - Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - 183 páginas

“A ira nunca deixa de ter uma razão, mas raramente tem uma boa.”

Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
A character of King Charles the Second: and political, moral, and miscellaneous thoughts and reflections. By George Savile, marquis of Halifax‎ - Página 135 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&pg=PA135, George Savile Halifax, George Savile Halifax (Marquis of) - Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - 183 páginas

“A ira faz a invenção crescer, mas aquece demais o forno.”

Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the Oven
The works of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax‎, George Savile Halifax (Marquis of), Mark N. Brown - Volume 3, Clarendon Press, 1989, ISBN 0198123388, 97801981233851989 - 514 páginas

“O verdadeiro mérito é como os rios: quanto mais profundo, menos ruído faz.”

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
The life and letters of Sir George Savile, bart., first marquis of Halifax &c‎ - Volume 2, Página 483, George Savile Halifax (Marquis of) - 1973
Miscellanies - Página 297 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=aqEEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA297, George Savile Halifax (Marquis of) - Robert Urie, 1751, 344 páginas

“A melhor qualificação para um poeta é ter boa memória.”

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
A Character of King Charles the Second: And Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections - Página 165 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=fYIpW8Jl5bEC&pg=PA165, George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1750

George Saville Halifax: Frases em inglês

“Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.”

Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves.”

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

“A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.”

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

“In this Age, when it is said of a Man, He knows how to live, it may be imply’d he is not very honest.”

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

“Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.”

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

“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”

http://books.google.com/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&q=%22Weak+men+are+apt+to+be+cruel%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.”

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

“A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.”

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

“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”

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

“A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.”

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

“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”

On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury : as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.”

Of Prerogative, Power and Liberty.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”

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

“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”

Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”

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

“A Princely Mind will undo a private Family.”

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

“A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.”

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

“A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner.”

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

“It is a general Mistake to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing.”

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