William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes & Sayings

Top 6 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes

#1. 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

#2. [F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#3. What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#4. Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#5. It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#6. 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

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Top 6 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes

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