Harold MacMillan

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

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

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

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.

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

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