Quotes to inspire and reflect

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

The East is a career.

Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,—and that was wrong.

‘Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.’ ‘You speak of—’ said Egremont, hesitatingly, ‘ THE RICH AND THE POOR. ’

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

‘Sensible men are all of the same religion.’ ‘And pray what is that?’ … ‘Sensible men never tell.’

His Christianity was muscular.

As for our majority … one is enough.

With words we govern men.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatism—an unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

‘A sound Conservative government,’ said Taper, musingly. ‘I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.’

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace—but a peace I hope with honour.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. of the Treasury Bench

Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Justice is truth in action.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

The Continent will [not] suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.

L’esprit de l’escalier.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

And [with] the guts of the last priest

This is my letter to the world

They shut me up in prose—

There’s a certain Slant of light,

The Soul selects her own Society—

Success is counted sweetest

Parting is all we know of heaven,

There interposed a Fly—

Heaven is what I cannot reach

There is no Frigate like a Book

Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet

Because I could not stop for Death—

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Minerva House … where some twenty girls … acquired a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.