Occupation: Former Leader Of The House Of Commons Birth: December 21, 1804 Death: April 19, 1881
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment..
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods..
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with….
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness..
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart..
You have proved it is a very moral habit..
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end..
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay..
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity..
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great natio….
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce..
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt..
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded..
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whe….
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of ….
Finality is not the language of politics..
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature..
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best..
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong..
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled..
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians..