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.

March 29, 2026

4 months ago

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

January 4, 2025

2 years ago

…in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

February 26, 2025

1 year ago

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

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