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Alfred Deakin
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“He was timorous, changeable, inconsistent, erratic, gloomy and absorbed, then sparkling and excitable by turns, his fine face pale and puffy — his fine head rapidly turning grey — his figure growing too portly — his hand trembling, his eye restless, his demeanour that of one who drifted in and out of dreams and some of them bad dreams.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Lord Rosebery]
“He sought rest only in perpetual physical motion.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Lord Rosebery]
“His nervous instability was painful, his poses perpetual and his vanity colossal.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Lord Rosebery]
“He was petulent as a child, irritable to a degree at the least criticism, oscillating between apparently unaffected indifference to public opinion and the keenest appetite for its applause. The genuine indifference was that of a jaded man who has lost self-confidence and is thoroughly weak of will. His affected indifference was part of a theatrical pose he played with foolish ostentation. He was such a mass of weaknesses and wilfulnesses and insincerities that he leaned for support upon any who could win his confidence, which could always be accomplished by flatterers or intriguers.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Lord Rosebery]
“He had apparently no illusions, no passions and no pre dominantly great ideals. He had the official manner, imperturbable and impenetrable, which would have made the fortune of an ambassador in Bismarck's eves.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Sir Edward Grey]
“A splendidly built man of towering height but never unwieldy, with a high forehead, keen eyes glittering through his spectacles, strongly marked features, and manly address, his many charms of character and some powers of mind were ill conjoined. He was not only prejudiced even among the New South Welshmen of his day, but obstinate, eccentric and changeable. Converted from an ardent Free Trader into a strong Protectionist almost without an interval long enough to permit of baptism, he compared it, himself. to the miraculous conversion of St Paul.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of George (later Sir George) Dibbs]
“Sir Thomas was a man of business, stout, florid, choleric, curt and Cromwellian.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Sir Thomas McIlwraith]
“In public life ... he had but one aim — his own aggrandisement.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of William (later Sir William) Lyne]
“Though a Tasmanian born he appealed at all times to the narrowest Sydney and New South Wales provincialism by the pettiest and meanest acts and proposals. He was an anti- Federalist from the first, except upon terms which should ensure the absolute supremacy of his own colony as a stepping- stone to his own elevation.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of William (later Sir William) Lyne]
“... his politics were a chaos and his career contemptible.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of William (later Sir William) Lyne]
“One of Sir Henry Parkes's besetting foibles was a love of associating himself with notables of the day, of whom he devoutly preserved all mementoes, of whom he frequently spoke and with whom he corresponded whenever possible. At the [Federation] Conference of 1890 he managed to introduce with comments a letter from Lecky and to mention by the way that he had been introduced to him by Lord Tennyson.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944)
“Knowledge was his forte and omniscience his foible.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Sir Charles Dilke]
“He possessed for a time practically despotic authority "On the one condition", as he shrewdly said, "that I did not exercise it.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Sir Graham Berry]
“Reid was neither federal nor anti-federal but either at need and as far as possible both at once. It is difficult indeed to describe so extraordinary a man without appearing to caricature him ...”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Sir George Reid]
“His colonial career though brilliant in parts was, on the whole, unsatisfactory, largely owing to British prejudice against an avowed 'Irish rebel' and partly owing to un attractive characteristics of temperament. My acquaintance with him was slight and short. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly when I entered it for a day in 1879 but not when I returned in 1880. His intellectual forehead, dignified demeanour and carefully polished utterances well fitted him for the post, though his voice at once weak and harsh, thin and squeaky, and his cold, calculating eye indicated the physical and emotional defects which helped to cripple his efforts and to defeat his soaring ambition. The literary graces and practised craftsmanship manifest in all his writings indicate the natural bent of his abilities and enable him to present in his autobiography a flattering full-length portrait of himself as he believed himself or desired others to believe him to be.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy]