Quotes
Quotes - Canning
Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.
And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black,--nor white so very white.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,--perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
No, here's to the pilot that weathered the storm!
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content-- So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen. - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,
And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
