Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman’s tenderness Is a part of his possession. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke