Harold MacMillan Quotes

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

Trust, Nobody, Trusts

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

Once, Hug, Bear

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.
Harold MacMillan

Fool, Young, Old

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

Ideas, Sound, Original

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

Mean, Living, Dead

To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold MacMillan

Alive, Risk, Involves

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

Best, Away, Actor

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

Politics, Experience, Ignorance

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

Experience, Long, Find

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

Between, Forever, Foreign

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

Home, Yourself, Almost

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

Between, Useful, Role

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan

Between, Forever, Cliche

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

Great, Find, Fact

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

Son, Round, Ike

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

Government, Down, Two

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
Harold MacMillan

Sense, Purpose, Archbishop

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold MacMillan

Good, God, Enough

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

Government, Her, Nor

It's no use crying over spilt summits.
Harold MacMillan

Crying, Spilt, Summits

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

Beautiful, Growth, Building

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan

Memorial, Parties, Cocktail

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Harold MacMillan

Sleep, Lose, Public

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

Power, Nothing, Dead

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan

Might, Safety, Catch

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Politician

Born: February 10, 1894

Died: December 29, 1986

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