15 Quotations by Lord Melbourne
- 1. A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
- 2. I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
- 3. If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
- 4. It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
- 5. It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov ...
- 6. My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in ...
- 7. Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
- 8. Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
- 9. Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
- 10. That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
- 11. The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
- 12. Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
- 13. Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languag ...
- 14. You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow ...
- 15. Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre ...
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