Famous Quotes - Tags - Statesman
- A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. More
- A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps... More
- A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness. More
- A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. More
- A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffling activity of the body, are strong indications of... More
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a... More
- A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. More
- A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. More
- A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an... More
- A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every... More
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least,... More
- A government of laws, and not of men. More
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome... More
- A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness’ sake. Just as in a family... More
- A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. More
- A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the... More
- A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe... More
- A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s... More
- A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite... More
- A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does... More
- A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome;... More
- A man’s own good breeding is his best security against other people’s ill-manners. More
- A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. More
- A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. More
- A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of... More
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that... More
- A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. More
- A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning... More
- A prudent cuckold (and there are many such at Paris) pockets his horns, when he cannot gore with... More
- A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all... More
- A recent publication from Paris, titled L’Année Merveilleuse (1748), predicts, for the first... More
- A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for... More
- A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in... More
- A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with... More
- A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own. More
- A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity... More
- A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. More
- A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your... More
- A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise... More
- A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the... More
- Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction... More
- Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice. More
- According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages... More
- Age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to... More
- All art is a revolt against man’s fate. More
- All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them.... More
- All government—indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent... More
- All his usual formalites of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique. More
- All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper... More
- All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be... More
- All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most... More
- All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. More
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in... More
- Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and... More
- Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the... More
- Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. More
- Ambition can creep as well as soar. More
- America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to... More
- Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. More
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. More
- An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. More
- An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own... More
- An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. More
- An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is... More
- An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned.... More
- And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the... More
- And with the self-same weapon, too! More
- Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit... More
- Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. More
- Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. More
- Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. More
- Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think... More
- Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always... More
- As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general... More
- As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human... More
- As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are... More
- At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are... More
- At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. More
- Away with the cant of “Measures, not men!”Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and... More
- Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will... More
- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward... More
- Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. More
- Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. More
- Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. More
- Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. More
- Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are... More
- Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and... More
- But Madame Bad Luck soberly comes
And stays—no fancy has she for flitting; More
- Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always... More
- By all those, who are not much acquainted with him, he was considered infinitely below his level;... More
- By-gones are by-gones, as Chartres, when he was dying, said of his sins: let us look forwards. More
- Ça ira. (It will go its own way.) More
- Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to... More
- Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? More
- Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously... More
- Carthage must be destroyed.
[Delenda est Carthago.] More
- Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty... More
- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the... More
- Circumstances ... give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and... More
- Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in... More
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