Lord Farquhar Quotes & Sayings

Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it. — Robin Hobb

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in. — Hillary Clinton

The function of the church for both young and old is not to give us on Sundays certain kinds of experiences different from experiences of the every day. The function of the church is rather to teach us how to put religious and ethical qualities into all kinds of experiences. — Sophia Lyon Fahs

Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again. — Saaif Alam

Country gentlemen who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the country gentlemen were not made comfortable by this thought. The country gentlemen had a strong suspicion that cleverness was somehow unBritish. That sort of restless, unpredictable brilliance belonged most of all to Britain's arch-enemy, the Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte; the country gentlemen could not approve it. — Susanna Clarke