A lion, for instance, which in nature is not a very distinctive object, was portrayed, for greater distinction, with its leonine attributes, its fierce expression, frightful claws, lithe and ,lissom body all vastly exaggerated, so that indeed it looked more like a lion than did ever any lion of nature. In this wise, by turning away from true representation and adopting a character all its own, was the 'heraldic lion' born, and with it came also the manner of depictin all the other beasts and forms and patterns which is so peculiarly heraldic.


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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
SIR CLAUS MOSER
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing...
SIR PETER IMBERT
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore ...
SIR PETER HALL
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY
The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
SIR RICHARD HULL
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests wi...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the fl...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau...
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one...
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
Pain with the thousand teeth.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT