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...

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...

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 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...

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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...

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...

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...

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

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

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

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...

To be alive at all involves some risk.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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.

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...

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...

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

(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.

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