Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil may refer to:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), English administrator and politician, MP for Westminster, and for Hertfordshire
Robert Cecil (1670–1716), member of parliament for Castle Rising, and for Wootton Basset
Robert Cecil, English politician
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958) British lawyer, politician and diplomat
Robert Cecil (1913–1994), British diplomat and writer

Quotes

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.