Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
Born: June 27, 1786
Died: June 3, 1869 (aged 82)
Bio: John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was a British politician and diarist.
Known for:
- Recollections of a Long Life (1786)







