Quotes Library

June 5, 2025

It is a great folly to offend many if you only want to insult one man.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), Italian historian and statesman, Ricordi, C, 7

Think hard. Have you ever done something so stupid?

Never forget that the secret of success in politics is the slowness with which you make enemies. You will make them, in any event, but why rush?

October 31, 2025

12 months ago

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

January 20, 2025

2 years ago

The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him.

February 26, 2025

2 years ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

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