Viscount Melbourne Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Power is the first good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Invest your money on ideas for fastest returns; invest your money on land for the safest return.

Debasish Mridha

#4. 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

#5. I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

Sandy Gallin

#6. Funny people, the Swiss," he said. "While the rest of us hide our sins, they stuff theirs with liqueur, wrap them in silver paper, add a ribbon, and sell them at the price of gold. The prefect has just sent me a huge box of chocolates from Zurich,

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#8. He lit the night he brought with the fire that puts out the planets when time ends.

Ramesh Menon

#9. Like people say - if you want to make God laugh, tell him you've got plans.

Terry Hayes

#10. 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

#11. Great fiction tells unknown truths. Great film goes further. Great film improves Truth. After all, what Truth ever made $40 million in its first weekend of wide release? What Truth sold in forty foreign territories in six hours? Who's lining up to see a sequel to Truth?

Jess Walter

#12. I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

Duke Ellington

#13. The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

Ray Wise

#14. When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.

Anton Chekhov

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

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#16. [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

#17. I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

Richard Flanagan