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26 quotes by Harold MacMillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac" and known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability, Macmillan achieved note before the Second World War as a Tory radical and critic of appeasement. As a child, teenager and...
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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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... →

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To be alive at all involves some risk.

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

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

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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

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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... →

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

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

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

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

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

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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

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