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.

June 21, 2025

1 year ago

As with sailing, so with politics: make your cloth too taut and the ship will dip and keel

November 13, 2025

9 months ago

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

March 13, 2025

1 year 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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