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If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.
— Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
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the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
— Julia Quinn
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
— Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
We have not eternal allies and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and peretual and those interests it is out duty to follow.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.
— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The aeroplane will never fly.
— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Dirt is matter in the wrong place.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.
— Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.
— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.
— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.
— Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.
— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.
— Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur
That's right: Duff McKagan, king of beers, viscount of vodka, count of coke. Champion of the world. Asshole.
— Duff McKagan
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.
— Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
The beautiful is always severe.
— Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur
The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.
— William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
— Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!
— Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
— David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel
Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.
— Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur
The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.
— David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Politicians cannot alter trends.
— Harold Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson
Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.
— Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.
— Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.
— Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.
— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
A difficulty for every solution.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
— Neil Kinnock
What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Full lips are better for kissing.
— Julia Quinn
The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon
I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon