Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG OM GCSI GCMG GCIE TD PC (1881–1959,) known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably that of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. As such, he is often regarded as one of the architects of the policy of appeasement prior to World War II. During the war, he served as British Ambassador in Washington.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Punishment
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Universities, Education, Colleges
Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Anger
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Lawyers, Law
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Chance
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Gratitude
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Anger
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Names, Identity
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Thinking
Misspending a man’s time is a kind of self-homicide.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Time Management, Time
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Politicians, Politics
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