Roger L'Estrange Quotes

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.