Quotes

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

A cat looks down upon a man, and a dog looks up to a man, but a pig will look a man in the eye and see his equal.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their censure.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.