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.

November 28, 2025

3 months ago

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

July 20, 2025

7 months ago

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.

October 24, 2025

4 months ago

[On dealing with the Royal Family] I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

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