How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share
Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image