E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG OM GCSI GCMG GCIE TD PC, styled Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1925 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He is regarded as one of the architects of the policy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth16 April 1881
wise men views
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
men two religion
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
men liberty world
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
art philosophy men
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
business men lasts
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
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There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
names numbers speak
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
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A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.