The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes..

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief..

In politics, nothing is contemptible..

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!.

All must respect those who respect themselves..

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis..

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this..

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of t….

Damn your principles! Stick to your party..

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger..

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others..

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married..

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter..

There is no gambling like politics..

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor..

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful..

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me..

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'..

Great countries are those that produce great people..

Without tact you can learn nothing..

Life is to short to be small..