“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
“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Gladstone was what you'd call an ornamental rector. Some were neither use nor ornament. He was at least ornamental.”
Donald Wintersgill
“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
“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
“To Victoria Beckham: So why exactly do they call you Posh?”
Naomi Campbell
“Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific”
John Norton
