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 18, 2025

6 months ago

It is no inglorious thing to have fear for the safety of our country, but to be turned from one’s course by men’s opinion

March 7, 2025

10 months ago

Men on white horses armed with simple solutions are the answer when people decide they’ve had enough of “politics as usual.”

March 21, 2025

9 months ago

[Of two fellow congressmen] They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

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