Viscount Palmerston Quotes

#1. There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#2. 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

#3. You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

Nicholas Proffitt

#4. Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#5. I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

Eric Idle

#6. Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#7. You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod."
"A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course you never mention that.

George Saunders

#8. What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#9. Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#10. We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#11. Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? The

Ruta Sepetys

#12. But no matter, the road is life.

Jack Kerouac

#13. It is a fearful thing to love what time can touch.

Eva Ibbotson

#14. Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#15. The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#16. Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston