George Grenville quotes

George Grenville quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.”
-- George Grenville

Source : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, George Grenville (1769). “The Speech of a Right Honourable Gentleman, on the Motion for Expelling Mr. Wilkes, Friday, February 3, 1769”, p.41

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“The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.”
-- George Grenville

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