Quotes by Melbourne, Lord

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. >>

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. >>

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argu >>

Quotations about Fallibility

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafnes >>

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. >>

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is co >>

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Melbourne, Lord