“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.”
William Manchester
“We look forward to expanding our relationship with Gladstone scientists to help train CIRM scholars and to help expand the public's understanding of all aspects of regenerative medicine,”
Charles Carlson
“Gladstone, at the end of the 19th century, said that the task of the priest had become much more difficult than it had ever been. Today it has worsened rather than improved, in a Church that is divided and in a culture where God has been pushed out of many lives and is not given the opportunity to influence scores of others.”
Arthur Middleton
“Gladstone was what you'd call an ornamental rector. Some were neither use nor ornament. He was at least ornamental.”
Donald Wintersgill
“He has not one single redeeming defect”
“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”
Francois Fenelon