Political Quotes

The exact reversal of the Lear suggestion in the last act was an inspiration, his own and not Boucicault’s.

In one way and another they lived by their wits, the one all dignity, the other all cheek.

Alike in winter fog and summer haze, I grew to know and love it, and those that may be called its dramatis personae, especially its tatterdemalions, the long procession led by Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin and Jonathan Wild the Great.

Thus, at the outset of a career from which much was to be expected, a man, possessed of rare and original qualities of head and heart, sank out of the sphere in which at that time he was the most prominent figure.