In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on …

- George Canning

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

- George Canning

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So hav…

- George Canning

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

- George Canning

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gotti…

- George Canning

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, wit…

- George Canning

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

- George Canning

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

- George Canning

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No…

- George Canning