Mr.Palliser has twenty schemes of reform, all mature; but among you you've not let him bring in one of them.
The Duke and Mr.Mildmay and you will break his heart among you." "Poor Mr.Palliser!" "The truth is, if you don't take care he and Mr.Monk and Mr.Gresham will arise and shake themselves, and turn you all out." "We must look to ourselves, Lady Glencora." "Indeed, yes;--or you will be known to all posterity as the faineant government." "Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a faineant government is not the worst government that England can have.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something." "Mr.Mildmay is at any rate innocent of that charge," said Lady Glencora.
They were now riding through a vast wood, and Phineas found himself delightfully established by the side of Violet Effingham.

"Mr.Ratler has been explaining to me that he must have nineteen next session.
Now, if I were you, Mr.Finn, I would decline to be counted up in that way as one of Mr.Ratler's sheep." "But what am I to do ?" "Do something on your own hook.

You men in Parliament are so much like sheep! If one jumps at a gap, all go after him,--and then you are penned into lobbies, and then you are fed, and then you are fleeced.

I wish I were in Parliament.