Top 7 Lord David Cecil Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.”

— Lord David Cecil

2. “The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.”

— Lord David Cecil

3. “A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.”

— Lord David Cecil

4. “To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.”

— Lord David Cecil

5. “A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.”

— Lord David Cecil

6. “Power rests in tranquillity.”

— Lord David Cecil

7. “It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.”

— Lord David Cecil

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