SRSir Robert Walpole

5 collected words

Sir Robert Walpole

Life dates: 1676 AD — 1745 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1710 AD

The balance of power.

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02c. 1710 AD

Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."

Sir Robert Walpole / quote

03c. 1710 AD

Anything but history, for history must be false.

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04c. 1710 AD

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

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05c. 1710 AD

All history is a lie!

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