There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke More Quotes by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke More Quotes From Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke might men boys Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke flower taste may Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke genius looks It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke opinion doubt believe Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke hunger folly politics Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke prejudice men people We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke discovering selfishness reason Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke wit fire Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke sensibility heat women Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke silence grief writing One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke practice men country If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke delight atheism blood Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke ambition men two Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke inspiration giving ideas Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke pleasure young There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke passion ambition character Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech? Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke parrots speech men When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke ancestry birth real Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke strange views men The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke slave kingdoms kings
