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 27, 2025

8 months ago

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

December 10, 2025

8 months ago

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

December 15, 2025

8 months ago

If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.

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