A Year of Quotations (2025)

Do not let the ingratitude of many men deter you from doing good to others.

July 13, 2025

1 year ago

Philosophy & History

Rest breeds rust. German proverb.

July 14, 2025

1 year ago

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?

July 15, 2025

1 year ago

[To one of her hotel housekeepers] Only the little people pay taxes.

July 16, 2025

1 year ago

The model of a modern Prime Minister would be a kind of grotesque composite freak

July 17, 2025

1 year ago

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten.

July 18, 2025

1 year ago

Ethics & Morality

I pay my tax bills more readily than any others—for whether the money is well or ill spent

July 19, 2025

1 year ago

The House of Commons is the greatest closed shop of all

July 20, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.

July 21, 2025

1 year ago

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

July 22, 2025

1 year ago

Anti-intellectualism is the same as self-destruction….

July 23, 2025

1 year ago

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

July 24, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

July 25, 2025

1 year ago

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

July 26, 2025

1 year ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

July 27, 2025

1 year ago

Philosophy & History

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

July 28, 2025

1 year ago

I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

July 29, 2025

1 year ago

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes to build up great fortunes

July 30, 2025

12 months ago

People come to Washington believing it’s the center of power.

July 31, 2025

12 months ago

Conspiracies cannot be hatched without the complicity of others, and for that reason are extremely dangerous.

August 1, 2025

12 months ago

The greatest gift of any statesman rests not in knowing what concessions to make, but recognizing when to make them.

August 2, 2025

12 months ago

War & Peace

I have spent much of my life fighting the Germans and fighting the politicians.

August 3, 2025

12 months ago

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

August 4, 2025

12 months ago

Liars ought to have good memories.

August 5, 2025

12 months ago

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

August 6, 2025

12 months ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

August 7, 2025

12 months ago

Welfare became a term of opprobrium—a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict

August 8, 2025

12 months ago

Communication & Education

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

August 9, 2025

12 months ago

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

August 10, 2025

12 months ago

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant.

August 11, 2025

12 months ago