When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.- Harold MacMillan
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
