Quotes Library

October 24, 2025

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

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British prime minister and novelist, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.66

I’m sorry; did you say you forgot the question…or did I?

One of the advantages of age is that the faulty memory defense grows more credible every day.

December 25, 2025

2 months ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

May 23, 2025

9 months ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

April 30, 2025

10 months ago

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.

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