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"It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 15.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That knuckle-end of England,--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 17.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"No one minds what Jeffrey says: . . . it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 17.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 23.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the attribute of God."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 29.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 53.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 88.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 130.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 157.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 244.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 258.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 259.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 261.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 265.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.""
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Macaulay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 363.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."
Recipe for Salad. P. 374.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?--how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."
Recipe for Salad. P. 383.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death."
Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"
Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Magnificent spectacle of human happiness."
America. Edinburgh Review, July, 1824.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal; the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington."
Speech at Taunton, 1813.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light."
On American Debts.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain