With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

Our problems are technical, not political

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.