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
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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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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
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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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In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
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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.
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I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
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Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.
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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.