"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments"
"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity"
"It is easier to be critical than correct"
"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life"
"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner"
"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent"
"Never complain and never explain"
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor"
"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles"
"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life"
"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men"
"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder"
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them"
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy"
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure"
"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven"
"A precedent embalms a principle"
"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both"
"A majority is always better than the best repartee"
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant"
"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds"
"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones"
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world"
"As for our majority... one is enough"
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information"
"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth"
"Adventures are to the adventurous"
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment"
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded"
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"
"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel"
"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm"
"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful"
"Duty cannot exist without faith"
"Little things affect little minds"
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable"
"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory"
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief"
"Man is only great when he acts from passion"
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter"
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions"
"London is a roost for every bird"
"We cannot learn men from books"
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end"
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations"
"There is no index of character so sure as the voice"
"There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice"
