Harold Macmillan Events Quotes

Most of our people have never had it so good. ~ Harold Macmillan

I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~ Harold Macmillan

I'd like that translated, if I may. ~ Harold Macmillan

It's no use crying over spilt summits. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism. ~ Harold Macmillan

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. ~ Harold Macmillan

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. ~ Harold Macmillan

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ~ Harold Macmillan

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

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. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest. ~ Harold Macmillan

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. ~ Harold Macmillan

It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored. ~ Harold Macmillan

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

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

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

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers ~ Harold Macmillan

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

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old. ~ Harold Macmillan

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ~ 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. ~ Harold Macmillan

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. ~ Harold Macmillan

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ. ~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. ~ Harold Geneen

Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind. ~ Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel. ~ Harold Holzer

3053Geography also gave Russia a rich choice of potential enemies. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Although I am still in favour of a National Government in these difficult times, and shall probably be found in the great majority of cases in the Government Lobby, there are some issues that have arisen, or are likely to arise, upon which I am unable to give the Government the support which it has, perhaps, the right to expect from those receiving the Government Whip. It occurs to me, therefore, that it would perhaps be more satisfactory if I was no longer regarded as being among the supporters of the present Administration. ~ Harold Macmillan

I haven't bled enough to make me buoyant. ~ Sou Macmillan

be whispered more now, only spoken of in hushed terms, because Lucas Grantham might ~ Gilly Macmillan

China. The Kaiser had temporarily ~ Margaret MacMillan

If you talk too openly about terrible things people shrink from you. ~ Gilly Macmillan

If you believe in yourself, things are possible. ~ Shannon MacMillan

In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be. ~ Gilly Macmillan

To be alive at all involves some risk. Harold Macmillan ~ Anonymous

and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping ~ Gilly Macmillan

But here's the thing; none of us deserve anything. That's an illusion we all exist under ~ Gilly Macmillan

Grace has such simple needs. Wake, give love, receive love, refuel, expend energy, sleep. I love that about her. ~ Gilly Macmillan

Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords. ~ Margaret MacMillan

don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm desperate to distract Dad and Becky, to stop the thing that's happening. ~ Gilly Macmillan

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones. ~ Gilly Macmillan

What might happen if writing were a shared endeavor, meant t connect people instead of being hoarded as a tool of power and privilege. ~ Kathy MacMillan

Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword! ~ Margaret MacMillan

made some references to these sources within this book, What She Knew is entirely a work of fiction and all quotes and references are used fictitiously. ~ Gilly Macmillan

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Dream big and surround yourself with people that believe in you ~ Shannon MacMillan

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order. ~ Margaret MacMillan

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention. ~ Duncan MacMillan

Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know. ~ Gilly Macmillan

But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Seize the day - be brave - be independent - be thoughtful - don't be scared to make mistakes - keep learning - all those things, all the time ~ Gilly Macmillan

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. ~ Margaret MacMillan

inside the house, a silence deeper than any I'd ever experienced before. A void where everything that I'd ever lived for should have been. ~ Gilly Macmillan

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods. ~ Whitney MacMillan

One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about it ~ Alan Macmillan Orr

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents. ~ Christopher Fowler

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ~ Harold Brodkey

They saw me as a freak show. I frightened people because I was someone to whom the worst was happening, and they turned on me like a pack of dogs. I've ~ Gilly Macmillan

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening. ~ Margaret MacMillan

Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. ~ Harold Bloom

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair. ~ Nigel Hamilton

I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!' ~ Harold Lederman

You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger! ~ Shannon MacMillan

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.) ~ Simon Kuper

If we're not who we imagine we are, then is anybody else? If there's so much potential for others to judge us wrongly, then how can we be sure that our assessment of them in any way resembles the real person that lies underneath? ~ Gilly Macmillan

How many soaps does P&G make? In a sense, they're all the same. Can you tell me the difference between trading soybeans, cotton and rubber? They're all soaps to us. ~ Whitney MacMillan

Don Juan: I feel like God is punishing me and I don't know what for.

Nurse 2: God's not punishing you. Life is Hell for all of us. You're not special. ~ Duncan Macmillan

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters. ~ Harold Holzer

Leaders when not leading are outcasts. ~ Harold Klemp

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. ~ Harold Pinter

Someday science will supply all of us with washboard abs. ~ Harold Jaffe

You have nothing to lose but the chains of reality. ~ Harold Davis

Stan, don't let them tell you what to do! ~ Harold Pinter

No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean. ~ Harold Bloom

what are you but a corpse waiting to be washed? ~ Harold Pinter

Don't think I'm not incoheret. ~ Harold Ross

I no longer feel banished from myself. ~ Harold Pinter

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. ~ Harold Bloom

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. ~ Harold Bloom

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech. ~ Harold Holzer

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers. ~ Harold Bloom

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ~ Harold Geneen