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.

July 31, 2025

12 months ago

Conspiracies cannot be hatched without the complicity of others, and for that reason are extremely dangerous.

January 5, 2025

2 years ago

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness,

December 28, 2025

7 months ago

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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