• A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

    Benjamin Disraeli: A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
    Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878