Henry Taylor Quotes

• El arte de vivir con soltura en cuanto al dinero consiste en situar tu escala de vida un grado por debajo de tus posibilidades.

  Henry Taylor

  Funny, Inspiring, Art

  Sir Henry Taylor (1847). “Notes from Life, in six essays”, p.12

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Essence

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

  Henry Taylor

  Listening Ear, Soul, Ears

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• There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

  Henry Taylor

  Carácter, Hombres, Pruebas

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.101

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• If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

  Henry Taylor

  Men, Important, Share

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• Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

  Henry Taylor

  Strong, Love Is, Vices

  Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12

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• Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

  Henry Taylor

  Mother, Foresight

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.82

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• The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.

  Henry Taylor

  Running, Philosophy, Men

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.1

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• Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

  Henry Taylor

  Otoño, Carácter, Hombres

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.27

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• Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

  Henry Taylor

  Sweet, Disappointment, Adversity

  Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.59

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• Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

  Henry Taylor

  Ambition, Self, Intellectual

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.75

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• Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

  Henry Taylor

  Ambition, Literature, May

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.132

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• He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
  Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
  For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

  Henry Taylor

  Time, Eternity, Cures

  Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21

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• A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

  Henry Taylor

  Ignorance, Years, Secret

  Sir Henry Taylor (1957). “The Statesman”

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• I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

  Henry Taylor

  Desplumar

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• ...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

  Henry Taylor

  Strong, Blood, Law

  Sir Henry Taylor (1835). “Philip van Artevelde: a dramatic romance, in two parts”, p.36

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• When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

  Henry Taylor

  Orden, Generosidad, Dar

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

  Henry Taylor

  Hombres, Mundo, Sabe

  Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41

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• His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

  Henry Taylor

  Poison, Body, Glory

  Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41

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• Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

  Henry Taylor

  Betrayal, Men, Secret

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.131

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• Nos imaginamos lo que nos gusta, y luego lo construimos, según el azar, sobre la roca o la arena, porque el pensamiento está cansado de vagar por el mundo, y la fantasía, confinada en casa, lleva su barca a la orilla.

  Henry Taylor

  Running, Tired, Rocks

  Sir Henry Taylor (1852). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.32

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