Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.Collection: Men
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.Collection: Empires
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.Collection: Angel
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.Collection: People
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.Collection: Photography
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.Collection: Finding Yourself
Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.Collection: Blinkers
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.Collection: Funeral
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.Collection: Party