Top 26 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

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

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

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

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

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

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

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

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

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

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