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 16, 2025

12 months ago

There is no more ungraceful figure than that of a humanitarian with the eye to main chance.

July 23, 2025

1 year ago

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

January 16, 2025

2 years ago

[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.

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