WIST Quotations

Greville, Fulke -- Maxims, Characters and Reflections, 98 (1757 ed.)

Dave — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:29:07 +0000

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 1st Baron Brooke; Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Maxims, Characters and Reflections, 98 (1757 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:59:45 +0000

People seldom speak ill of themselves, but when they have a good chance of being contradicted.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 1st Baron Brooke; Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (1756)

Dave — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:17:47 +0000

Complaint against fortune is often a mask’d apology for indolence.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 1st Baron Brooke; Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (1756)

Dave — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:40:52 +0000

Man seems to be made neither to live alone nor with others.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 1st Baron Brooke; Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (1756)

Dave — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:05:17 +0000

They that seldom take pleasure seldom give pleasure.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 1st Baron Brooke; Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (1756)