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.

July 29, 2025

7 months ago

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes to build up great fortunes

April 4, 2025

11 months ago

To criticize one’s country is to do it a service…Criticism, in short, is more than a right

March 14, 2025

12 months ago

[Of political life] The hatreds which sound so real when you read the words, which look so true when you see their scornful attitudes

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