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.

February 12, 2025

11 months ago

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.

February 27, 2025

10 months ago

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

January 7, 2025

12 months ago

A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.

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