I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be, detested in France.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

Unforced, as conversation passed, he had the talent of saluting felicitously every theme, of listening like a judge-supreme while serious topics were disputing…

Talk to a man about himself, and he is generally captivated.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a …