I generally pay great attention to what a clergyman says, but you cannot always take the advice of a clergyman. A certain man had a dog, and his minister told him that he had better sell the dog and get a pig, to which the man replied, "A pretty fool I should look going rat-catching with a pig."
St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,
June 23rd, 1910.
Without some sort of religion no man can be happy.
St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,
June 23rd, 1910.
I am not accustomed to begging, being more accustomed to being begged of. That is one of the hereditary privileges of members of the House of Lords.
Meeting in connection with the new Infirmary for Newport,
March 17th, 1897.
It appears to me that my good qualities increase in proportion as the hair comes off the top of my head, and it is well that in proportion as we grow less ornamental we should grow more useful.
Tredegar Show,
November 29th, 1876.
I really think I must be out of place here. You know I am one of the hereditary nonentities. I cannot help the hereditary part of the business, and I have tried all my life to avoid the other.