Fulke Greville Quotes
… knowing as the man in the street always does
This appears to be the first English use of the “man in the street” expression that Ralph Waldo Emerson made more famous in his 1866 phrase: “The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.” Politicians have been using it ever since.
Charles Fulke Greville, 1794–1865, English Chancellor of the Exchequer, Member of Parliament & Poet, Memoirs
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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC, known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.
