If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merelya careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining with the firm maintenance of established rights the correction of private abuses and the redress of real grievances,I can for myself and my colleagues undertake to act in such a spirit and with such intentions.

-Peel, Sir Robert
  TheTamworth Manifesto.

Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im n a« chsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein. I am sitting in the smallest room of my house.I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.

-Reger, Max
  Written in response to an unfavourable review by Rudolf Louis. Quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky Lexicon of Musical Invective (2nd edn,1969), p.139.