Quotes from Lord Melbourne

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.