Harold Maurice Macmillan quotes Born: 02/10/1894 Died: 12/29/1986 Country: united_kingdom

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• 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 Maurice Macmillan)
• In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• It's no use crying over spilt summits. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• To be alive at all involves some risk. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)
• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. (Harold Maurice Macmillan)

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