Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery quotes
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“Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.”
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of RoseberySource : "Life of Pitt" by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1891.
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“A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.”
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“Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.”
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“Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.”
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“How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.”
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“The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.”
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“Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.”
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“Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.”
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“We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.”
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
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Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen”
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