"If he is mad, so much the better; and if he is mad, I hope to God he’ll bite some of my generals."

“He had the haughtiness of Henry the Eighth, without his spirit; the avarice of Henry the Seventh, without his exactions; the indignities of Charles the First, without his bigotry for his prerogative; the vexations of King William, with as little skill in the management of parties; and the gross gallantry of his father, without his goodnature or his honesty:– he might, perhaps, have been honest, if he had never hated his father, or had ever loved his son.”

“There are kings enough in England. I am nothing there. I am old and want rest and should only go to be plagued and teased there about that Damned House of Commons.”

“I hate painting, and poetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.”

“Who is this Pope that I hear so much about? I cannot discover what is his merit. Why will not my subjects write in prose?”