John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
10426 Appendix John Bartlett
NUMBER: | 10426 |
AUTHOR: | Appendix |
QUOTATION: | Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Macaulay (“History of England,” chap. xii.) gives a saying “often in the mouth of Stephen Rice [afterward Chief Baron of the Exchequer], ‘I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement.’” |