87 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

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.

In long experience I find that 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 living.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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

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

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

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

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