Lord Melbourne Quotes

#1. It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Lord Melbourne

#2. It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Lord Melbourne

#3. My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Lord Melbourne

#4. Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Lord Melbourne

#5. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

#6. I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.

Janet Fitch

#7. Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Lord Melbourne

#8. God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

James Salter

#9. The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.

George Herbert

#10. Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Lord Melbourne

#11. The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne

#12. A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Lord Melbourne

#13. That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Lord Melbourne

#14. She is confident and nonchalant in equal proportion to my paralyzing self-consciousness.

Rachel Friedman

#15. I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Lord Melbourne