Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is a school of probability.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Money is economic power.
Woman absent is woman dead.
Nations touch at their summits.
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
