Politician

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.