More from William Ewart Gladstone

  1. I don't object to Gladstone always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but merely to his belief that the Almighty put it there.
  2. They told me how Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
  3. If you were to put that man on a moor with nothing on but his shirt, he would become whatever he pleased.
  4. He was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer who ever made the Budget interesting. 'He talked shop,' it was said, 'like a tenth muse.' He c…
  5. I saw in the face of Mr. Gladstone a blending of opposite qualities. There were the peace and gentleness of the lamb, with the strength and…
  6. The defects of his strength grow on him. All black is very black, all white very white.
  7. Gladstone will soon have it all his own way and whenever he gets my place we shall have strange doings.
  8. If there were no Tories, I am afraid he would invent them.

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