(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion |
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion |
[It was] not at all like an experience in the modern world. More like meeting George III at Brighton. |
A colonial governor who ran out of countries. |
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. |
A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies. |
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. |
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. |
But, my dear boy, it always has been. |
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. |
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance |
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. |
I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth. |
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. |