John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3978 William Pitt
| NUMBER: | 3978 |
| AUTHOR: | William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) |
| QUOTATION: | A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770. |
| Note 1. Quoted by Lord Mahon, “greater than the throne itself.”—History of England, vol. v. p. 258. [back] |