“Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.”

The Author (1763), line 233

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105763
Second term as Prime Minister

The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 42 (p. 155)

Autobiography (1873)
Context: In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words. He also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar's Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, McCrie's Life of John Knox, and even Sewel's and Rutty's Histories of the Quakers. He was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver's African Memoranda, and Collins's account of the first settlement of New South Wales.

Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)

A System of Magick (1726).

1977