WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:26:44 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Bolingbroke, Henry (Lord) – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bolingbroke, Henry (Lord) -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/bolingbroke-henry-lord/35803/ https://wist.info/bolingbroke-henry-lord/35803/#respond Tue, 20 Dec 2016 04:04:11 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35803 I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth, ’tis only fools who are serious.


Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) English politician, government official, political philosopher [Lord Bolingbroke]
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Quoted in Gleason's Pictorial (Boston) (3 Dec 1853). ]]> https://wist.info/bolingbroke-henry-lord/35803/feed/ 0 35803 Bolingbroke, Henry (Lord) -- A Dissertation upon Parties (1735) https://wist.info/bolingbroke-henry-lord/29925/ https://wist.info/bolingbroke-henry-lord/29925/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:58:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29925 Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.


Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) English politician, government official, political philosopher [Lord Bolingbroke]
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