In conversation with M. E. Grant Duff, at York House (20 July 1888). Notes from a Diary, 1886–1888 (London: John Murray, 1900), vol. 2, p. 139. Variations of a very similar phrase are often attributed to Benjamin Disraeli; e.g. Eileen Bigland, Laughing Odyssey (London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1937), ch. 6, sec. 4 (p. 239): "But what was it Disraeli had said about Russia? That she had two faces, an Asiatic face which looked always towards Europe; and a European face which gazed always towards Asiahttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Morier