English Politician Quotes

Thus your Lordship sees that we Papists want not Charity towards you Protestants, whatsoever the less understanding Part of the World think of us.

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

All these threatening storms, which, like impregnate Clouds, hover o'er our heads, will (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Eloquence, transcendent eloquence, formed the foundation and the key-stone of Pitt's Ministerial greatness. Every other quality in him was accessory.

Of William Pitt the Younger

Nathaniel Wraxall

Then there is my noble and biographical friend who has added a new terror to death.

Of Lord Campbell

Charles Wetherell

Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

Millicent Fawcett

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Ara! but why does King James stay behind?
Lilli burlero bullen a la
Ho! by my shoul 'tis a Protestant wind.

Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton

I storm and I roar, and I fall in a rage,
And missing my whore, I bugger my page.

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset

A lover forsaken
A new love may get,
But a neck when once broken
Can never be set.

William Walsh (poet)

I would have my son mind and understand business, read little history, study the mathematics and cosmography; these are good, with subordination to the things of God.... These fit for public services for which man is born.

Oliver Cromwell

If I am given the privilege of becoming the first democratically elected Lord Mayor I'll never write another book.

The curse of the working class is the fewness of their wants, the poverty of their desires.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

A Pack of Spanish Lies sent abroad in the world, first printed in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the original. Now ripped up, unfolded and by just examination condemned, as containing false, corrupt and detestable wares worthy to be damned and burned.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

In the first stone which he [the savage] flings at the wild animals he pursues, in the first stick that he seizes to strike down the fruit which hangs above his reach, we see the appropriation of one article for the purpose of aiding in the acquisition of another, and thus discover the origin of capital.

What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.

The carrion crow, that loathsome beast,
Which cries against the rain.

George Gascoigne

They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.

Richard Grafton

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

William Blackstone

Consider a little how you treat the Court; the objection hath been solemnly taken in this Court, argued and adjudged by this Court, and now you come to arraign that judgment that was then given.