Quotes Library

March 12, 2025

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American scientist, Ideas and Opinions of Albert Einstein (1954), Seldes p.119

Name five occasions when you were careless with the truth? Six? Too many to cite?

Beware white liars. Of course, not every one of them will become a big liar, but every big one started out as a white liar.

May 30, 2025

1 year ago

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years

August 5, 2025

12 months ago

[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.

March 20, 2025

1 year ago

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

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