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.

April 23, 2025

1 year ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

May 30, 2025

1 year ago

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

June 22, 2025

1 year ago

A young man who isn’t a Socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a Socialist hasn’t got a head.

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