The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Lord John Russell

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Conspicuous by his absence.— filed under Absence
Death of Sir Philip Sidney. It is of the utmost importance that a nation should have a correct standard by which to weigh the character of its rulers.— filed under Character
From Two Angry Women of Abindon. A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. S.— filed under Prosperity
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