"There is nothing I know of so sublime…" — George Canning
"There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact."
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George Canning
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16 Quotes by George Canning
George Canning has 16 quotes on this site.
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
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Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are…
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
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So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.
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Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that…
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Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils…
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Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact…
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
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