9+ William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley quotes and sayings.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

What! All this for a song? — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley