Quotes Library

May 8, 2025

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

Jonathan Lyn (1943- ) and Antony Jay (1930–2016) British writers, Yes, Prime Minister, vol. 1 (1986), Jay p.235

What your batting average on this score?

Yes, Friday afternoon, when you can get out of town after quietly issuing some bad news press release.

October 12, 2025

4 months ago

Parties come to power with silly, inconsistent and impossible policies

March 20, 2025

11 months 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.

July 2, 2025

8 months ago

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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