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

Quote by Harold Macmillan

Topics: Harold Macmillan Quotes

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel...

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel...

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

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

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...

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

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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...

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.

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

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

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that...

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that...

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel...

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel...

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round...

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round...

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a...

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a...

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...

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...

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...

To be alive at all involves some risk.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

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...

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of...

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of...