Top 26 Quotes by Harold MacMillan

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

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

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

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

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

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

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.