All Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Quotes
- Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. Always Sustained
- The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common… Besieged
- Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. Bad
- Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a… Composition
- There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. Extent
- God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see… Ascribe