"Much is said about English severity, but not……" — Robert Peel

"Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation."

— Robert Peel

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21 Quotes by Robert Peel

Robert Peel has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
The police are the public and the public are the police
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with…
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent,…
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his…
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who…
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had…
I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain…

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More English Quotes

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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