Quotes Library

February 8, 2025

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.

Henry Kissinger (1923- ), American foreign policy maker, James Naughtie in Spectator, 1 April 1995; attributed, Jay p.214

Wouldn’t that be nice? Do you usually bore other dinner guests?

Kissinger probably got away with that far too often.

April 30, 2025

1 year ago

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.

January 19, 2025

2 years ago

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

April 23, 2025

1 year ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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