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

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on the…

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all…

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequa…

- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke