Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.


To Lord Dufferin about events in Persia, December 1879; Andrew Roberts Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999)

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Quotes

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible.