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.

November 29, 2025

3 months ago

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

December 18, 2025

2 months ago

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

March 13, 2025

12 months ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

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