1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
“While the galleries were all applausive of heart, and the Fourth Estate looked with eyes enlightened, as if you had touched its lips with a staff dipped in honey,—I have sat with reflections too ghastly to be uttered.”
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881Related quotes
“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”
On Hallam's Constitutional History (1828)
“The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
Parting Gift
Song lyrics, Extraordinary Machine (2005)
“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”
Source: Goliath
“Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon... dipped in honey.”
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