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 William Pitt

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

of England. A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now!— filed under Occupations-Navigation
Necessity was the argument of tyrants; it was the creed of slaves.— filed under Necessity
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter, perish in its fall.— filed under Ruin
From a grave thinking mouser, she was grown The gayest flirt that coach'd it round the town.— filed under Flirting
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