You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are...

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying...

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a...

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how...

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue,...

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue,...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir,...

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not...

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not...

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained...

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained...

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell