Wotton Quotes & Sayings

Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; — Oscar Wilde

Like a kind of melancholy mirage, the other withdraws into infinity and I wear myself out trying to get there. — Roland Barthes

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to. — Henry Wotton

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. — Henry Wotton

Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest. — Henry Wotton

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord. — Charles Stanley

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value. — Henry Wotton

Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure. — Lord Henry Wotton

When a country has substituted credit money or fiat money for metallic money, because the legal equating of the over-issued paper and the metallic money sets in motion the mechanism described by Gresham's Law, it is often asserted that the balance of payments determines the rate of exchange. But this also is a quite inadequate explanation. The rate of exchange is determined by the purchasing power possessed by a unit of each kind of money. — Ludwig Von Mises

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill. — Henry Wotton

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own - What are you when the rose is blown? — Henry Wotton

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Lord Henry Wotton

For many things were shown,
Recorded and written down.
But what is God to do,
When His Word you do renounce? — Kari L. Greenaway

To define is to limit. — Oscar Wilde

At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him, but who was considered generous by Society as he fed the people who amused him. — Oscar Wilde

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts. — Henry Wotton

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. — Oscar Wilde

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. — Henry Wotton

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. — Henry Wotton

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself. — Henry Wotton

Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got! — Dave Willis

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. — Henry Wotton

Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. — Henry Wotton

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down. — Henry Wotton

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. — Oscar Wilde

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church. — Henry Wotton

By weaker accents, what's your praise
When Philomel her voice doth raise? — Henry Wotton

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries. — Henry Wotton

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. — Oscar Wilde