Quotes by Melbourne, Lord

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest >>

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. >>

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

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Critics are already made. >>

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective critici >>

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a s >>

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Melbourne, Lord