The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
Benjamin DisraeliConsider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
Benjamin DisraeliExtreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
Benjamin Disraeli