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.

February 26, 2025

1 year ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

November 4, 2025

9 months ago

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.

February 8, 2025

1 year ago

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.

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