Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

Publish and be damned.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.