George Canning Quotes

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

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.

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!

Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

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.

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.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

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 twenty per cent.