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.

September 20, 2026

1 month ago

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

December 2, 2025

11 months ago

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

August 30, 2025

1 year ago

Since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put himself in subjection to another for his own harm

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