Top 100 Quotes About Gladstone
#1. Meina Gladstone sat at the head of the long table and felt the peculiar and not-unpleasant sense of separateness which comes from far too little sleep over far too long a period.
Dan Simmons
#2. I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.
Sufe Bradshaw
#3. The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity ...
Queen Victoria
#4. It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
Dean Inge
#5. If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli
#6. their heads cut off and nailed to posts. Jack Gladstone is
Dwayne Wong
#7. In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
George F. Will
#8. This is all-out, give-no-mercy warfare. The survival of civilization is at stake. What do we do now? All eyes turned toward Meina Gladstone.
Anonymous
#9. The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is:
The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.
Alfred Korzybski
#11. Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!
Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
Michael Faraday
#12. When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
Benjamin Disraeli
#13. Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ...
W.C. Sellar
#14. I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions---only those who do it well and those who don't.
Thomas Lynch
#15. It is hard to believe that Gladstone would have ordered the invasion of Egypt in 1882 if the Egyptian government had not threatened to renege on its obligations to European bondholders, himself among them.
Niall Ferguson
#16. Gladstone, how sad do you have to get before you stop making jokes?
Wayne Gladstone
#17. Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Winston Churchill
#18. Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
Michael Foot
#19. That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
Woodrow Wilson
#20. Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.
William E. Gladstone
#21. We all have set-backs, use yours as fuel to burn your desire and dedication.
Jerry Gladstone
#22. Great demons lived between the stars, and in them, beings immense in power and size, who sucked the marrow from suns and sang songs that drove galaxies mad. There
Max Gladstone
#23. Abelard did not look up from the god at his feet.
Max Gladstone
#24. Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
William E. Gladstone
#25. I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
William E. Gladstone
#26. She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit.
Max Gladstone
#28. Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.
Max Gladstone
#29. Don't give up...easy to say. But if you subscribe to this attitude you will always be in the position to succeed.
Jerry Gladstone
#30. Justice is like math, anyone can think she knows the answer, but not every answer is right.
Max Gladstone
#31. The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
#32. Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
#33. I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism .
William E. Gladstone
#34. Has anything happened in Australia since the eighties? I mean, besides Nemo being reunited with his dad?
Wayne Gladstone
#35. The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.
Max Gladstone
#37. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
#38. A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
William E. Gladstone
#39. Knowledge," Tara replied, turning a page as quietly as she could manage, "is power.
Max Gladstone
#40. The value of having a vision backed by a strong work ethic is the simple formula for success
Jerry Gladstone
#41. The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
William E. Gladstone
#42. You people get so closed up inside those little brains. Their structure changes in response to thought, you know, like your muscles respond to use. The used parts bulk up. Bad training develops uneven strength; it takes time and painful work to balance unbalanced muscles.
Max Gladstone
#43. You live in a grim universe."
"That's risk management for you.
Max Gladstone
#44. Your system kills, too. You're not eliminated sacrifices [to gods], you're democratized them - everyone dies a little every day, and the poor and desperate are the worst injured.
We honored our sacrifices in the old days. You sneer at them.
Max Gladstone
#45. Riding broomsticks, consorting with unholy powers. Who has the time for such pleasantries anymore? Why, I haven't been on a date since the late eighties.
Max Gladstone
#46. Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. "I told you so" had not been on the list. The
Max Gladstone
#47. Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
William E. Gladstone
#48. Life with through punches at you and sometimes knock you down. Learn to take the hit ,but more importantly learn to get back up and keep punching every single day!
Jerry Gladstone
#49. Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can...don't let anybody tell you you cant esp. you!
Jerry Gladstone
#50. A thousand prickling tender touches lit upon her, as if she was caught in a rainstorm and the raindrops were love.
Max Gladstone
#52. The truth is no one should hold you at a higher standard than yourself
Jerry Gladstone
#55. In the age of hyper technology and cookie crumbs, you can only trust a man in a mask. Everyone else has too much to lose.
Wayne Gladstone
#56. There's a long-standing debate in the media biz over whether the news outlets should give the public what it wants, or what it needs. This debate presupposes that media execs actually know what it wants or needs. And that there actually is a unitary "public.
Brooke Gladstone
#57. I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
William E. Gladstone
#58. You're my son. I love you. You work for godless sorcerers who I'd happily gut on the altar of that pyramid and you are part of a system that will one day destroy our city and our planet, but I still love you.
Max Gladstone
#59. The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
William E. Gladstone
#60. He sighed. "There is one thing you must understand about destroying gods, boy." "Only one?" "You must be ready to take their place.
Max Gladstone
#61. Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
William E. Gladstone
#62. For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.
Max Gladstone
#64. You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power?
Max Gladstone
#65. Practice honest self believe to learn and to better yourself.
Jerry Gladstone
#66. And she accepted the bridge date from the tentacled horror, with the proviso that her schedule would be inflexible for the next several weeks. Up
Max Gladstone
#67. Visionaries are hyper-focused to make sure there dreams come through. Be a visionary!
Jerry Gladstone
#68. I stare at the flush two blankets bring to her cheek and try to divine her dreams.
Wayne Gladstone
#69. A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors.
Max Gladstone
#70. The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
William E. Gladstone
#71. I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
William E. Gladstone
#72. Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
William E. Gladstone
#73. We all think we're on our own side, until the time comes to declare war.
Max Gladstone
#75. Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
William E. Gladstone
#76. Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.
William E. Gladstone
#77. From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
William E. Gladstone
#78. Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
William E. Gladstone
#79. The brain shuts down, and the soul watches from a distance as the body tumbles at ever-increasing speed toward doom. This is because, though instinct is good at many things, it's stupid about death.
Max Gladstone
#80. It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone
#81. Contract for Services Rendered, Alt Coulumb Kos Everburning to Royal Iskari Navy," she translated. "Since the common names are all the same, each contract needs a unique reference so we can tell which one we're talking about.
Max Gladstone
#83. You were a warrior, you are a warrior, you will always be a warrior!
Jerry Gladstone
#88. But music didn't make my mother nervous. She was more concerned about the agenda of women who thought it was a good idea to wear pastel, shoulder-padded suits while they all marched single file toward a better tomorrow.
Wayne Gladstone
#89. As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
William E. Gladstone
#90. What can we do in the face of fear? What else, came the whispered reply, but love and trust.
Max Gladstone
#91. Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara's bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child's face. After
Max Gladstone
#92. I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
William E. Gladstone
#93. I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
William E. Gladstone
#94. My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
William E. Gladstone
#96. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
William E. Gladstone
#97. I've gone from manager to knight in two days. I think I deserve a bump in salary.
Max Gladstone
#98. Losing the Internet has forced them to interact verbally instead of microblogging their lives, but a lot of them still talk in Tweets:
"Ugh! I'm standing in line at the post office."
"I'm not eating the crusts on my sandwich because apparently I'm five.
Wayne Gladstone
#99. as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: "Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones.
Brooke Gladstone
