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.

April 22, 2025

10 months ago

Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.

November 8, 2025

4 months ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

January 18, 2025

1 year ago

To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a

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