Richard Savage Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

  Richard Savage

  Men, He Man, Strikes

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

  Richard Savage

  Soul, Woe, Action

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• 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

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• 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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