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

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

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

To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold MacMillan

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

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

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