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Richard Savage Quotes

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Richard Savage
Stupid, Race, Faces
Richard Savage (1775). “The Works of Richard Savage, Esq., Son of the Earl Rivers: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.91

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

Richard Savage
Anger, Men, Way

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

Richard Savage
Murder, Fame, Slander
Richard Savage (1775). “The Works of Richard Savage, Esq., Son of the Earl Rivers: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.141

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

Richard Savage
Sex, Fiction, Contradiction
Richard Savage, Thomas Park (1807). “The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.129

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

Richard Savage
Men, He Man, Strikes

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Richard Savage
Soul, Woe, Action

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Richard Savage
Devil, Teeth, Vehement

The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.

Richard Savage
Past, Brain, Progress

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