Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quote

Nothing the people of this country like so much as to see their great men take part in their amusements. The aristocracy will commit a great error if they ever fail to mix freely with their neighbours.

On foxhunting

in 1836; Philip Henry Stanhope Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888)


Nothing the people of this country like so much as to see their great men take part in their amusements. The aristocracy will commit a great error if ...

Nothing the people of this country like so much as to see their great men take part in their amusements. The aristocracy will commit a great error if ...

Nothing the people of this country like so much as to see their great men take part in their amusements. The aristocracy will commit a great error if ...

Nothing the people of this country like so much as to see their great men take part in their amusements. The aristocracy will commit a great error if ...