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.

January 16, 2025

1 year 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.

August 14, 2025

6 months ago

[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.

March 7, 2025

12 months ago

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

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