Savile Quotes & Sayings

Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer. — George Hamilton

Major Rutledge of the Buffs, Eton and Sandhurst as to intonation, millimetrically tooth-brushed as to moustache, Savile Row as to the quite dazzling sartorial perfection of his khaki drill, was so magnificently out of place in the wild beauty of the rocky, tree-lined bluffs of that winding creek that his presence there seemed inevitable. — Alistair MacLean

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. — George Savile

I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One. — Jimmy Savile

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. — George Savile

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

A princely mind will undo a private family. — George Savile

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. — George Savile

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. — George Savile

I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person. — Jimmy Savile

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. — George Savile

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile

Classic was Jimmy Savile's use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile's celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy's celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press. — Daniel Finkelstein

Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow. — Jimmy Savile

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. — George Savile

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. — George Savile

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is. — Lapo Elkann

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. — George Savile

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use. — Jimmy Savile

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you. — Jimmy Savile

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. — George Savile

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it. — Jimmy Savile

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

What price peace? — Steven Savile

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. — George Savile

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. — George Savile

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. — George Savile

Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit - no less impressive in his mature nakedness. — William Boyd

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. — George Savile

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. — George Savile

their heart: 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves — Henry Savile

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. — George Savile

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. — George Savile

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong. — Jimmy Savile

A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. — George Savile

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. — George Savile

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. — George Savile

If politicians would think more they would act less. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. — George Savile

Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity. — Richard Corliss

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. — George Savile

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. — Gary Kemp

I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do. — Paul Weller

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. — George Savile

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. — George Savile

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. — George Savile

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. — George Savile

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

I don't drink. Never taken a drug in my life ever. In fact from a newspaper point of view I'm very boring. I don't do anything. I don't drink no booze, no drugs, no kinky carryings on, don't go to brothels. — Jimmy Savile

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly. He looked like someone who could've gone either way, the mob or something legitimate, and somehow ended up in the middle as a lawyer. — Dave Zeltserman