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

Quote by Harold Macmillan

Topics: Harold Macmillan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of...

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of...

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They...

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They...

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

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

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar,...

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar,...

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency...

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency...

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

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

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on...

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on...

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

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

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is...

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is...

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

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

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

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

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

Experience are the glasses of the mind

Experience are the glasses of the mind

Experience is the best teacher.

Experience is the best teacher.