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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Heart, Winning, Men

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Government, England, Parliament
"Famous sayings and their authors". Book by Edward Latham, 1906.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Children, Kids, Praise

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Summer, Soldier, Chimneys

What! All this for a song?

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Song
To Queen Elizabeth, on being ordered to make a gratuity of £100 to Spenser in return for some poems, in Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queene' (1751) 'The Life of Mr Edmund Spenser' by Thomas Birch

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Men, Manners, Gentility

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Stranger, Neighbor, Borrowing Money

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Age, Purgatory, Old Age

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Simple, Men, Light

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