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.

October 7, 2025

10 months ago

…since the affairs of the world are subject to change and to a thousand and one different accidents

June 25, 2025

1 year ago

Sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

November 29, 2025

8 months ago

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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