Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1034
AUTHOR:
Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
QUOTATION:
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS CARLYLE, Latter-Day Pamphlets, no. 6, pp. 1415 (1850).