52 Quotes About British-statesman

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.