| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16272 |
| QUOTATION: | He was a tough, burly thick-headed gentleman, with a loud voice, a pompous manner, a tolerable command of sentences with no meaning in them, and, in short, every requisite for a very good member indeed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 16, p. 192 (1839).
Said of Mr. Gregsbury, M.P.. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickens Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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