87 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

I’d like that translated, if I may.

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

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

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live “in a period of transition.” Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time – a practice that later became fashionable.

It’s a good thing to be laughed at. It’s better than to be ignored.

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

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

It is the duty of Her Majesty’s government neither to flap nor to falter.