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 11, 2025

1 year ago

The preservation of the means of knowledge (let me repeat that: the means of knowledge

June 18, 2025

1 year 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

August 27, 2025

11 months ago

If…a rulership aims not at the common good of the multitude, but at the private good of the ruler, it will be an unjust and perverted rulership.

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