Quotes Library

August 5, 2025

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

Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), British Conservative politician, prime minister, in the Butler Papers; Peter Hennessy The Hidden Wiring (1995), Jay p.245

How well do you deal with strain? Is that the best you can do?

Better Austen, than alcohol, affairs, or alternative strategies for relieving the strain. Besides, in every Austen novel, after great turmoil, things turn out right in the end.

Politics & Politicians

More Quotes

April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
Communication & Education
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
February 25, 2025
February 25, 2025
War & Peace
I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there
August 17, 2025
August 17, 2025
Politics & Politicians
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
1…120121122123124
Page 122 of 124