Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Quote

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.


Letter to Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (9 March 1877), as quoted in G. Cecil, The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury. Volume II, p. 130.


English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.