Quotes About Robert Burton

Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.