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.

May 24, 2025

1 year ago

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night

June 10, 2025

1 year ago

The trouble with the Conservative Party is that it has not turned back the clock a single second.

October 27, 2025

9 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

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