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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”