I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfa…

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax