Popularity: 13
Vote:   | A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
Popularity: 9
Vote: | A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. |
Popularity: 11
Vote: | A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. |
Popularity: 8
Vote: | A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. |
Popularity: 13
Vote: | A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. |
Popularity: 8
Vote: | All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. |
Popularity: 8
Vote: | An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. |
Popularity: 8
Vote: | The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
Popularity: 11
Vote: | The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. |
Popularity: 11
Vote: | The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. |
Popularity: 12
Vote: | The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | We must not let daylight in upon the magic. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. |
Popularity: 12
Vote: | Woman absent is woman dead. |
Popularity: 9
Vote: | Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. |