87 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

Most of our people have never had it so good.