Archibald Primrose Quotes & Sayings

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. — Archibald Primrose

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. — Archibald Primrose

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. — Archibald Primrose

Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers. — Archibald Primrose

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations. — Archibald Primrose

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators. — Archibald Primrose

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. — Archibald Primrose

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose