• “HE was always making use of convictions that he did not share, pursuing objects which he could not own, manoeuvring his party into alliances which though unobjectionable from his own standpoint were discreditable and indefensible from theirs. It was an atmosphere of pervading falseness which involved his party as well as himself.”

Nah, not this one, but Lady Gwendolen Cecil on Benjamin Disraeli.

MIKE BOR, W2