Quips& Quotes

“Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people one cannot stand.” – Samuel Goldwyn

“I see it said that leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.” – Winston Churchill

“Pray take away this pudding. It has no theme.” – Churchill at a lunch for the shadow Cabinet, circa 1946

“The word ‘disinflation’ has been coined in order to avoid the unpopular term ‘deflation’ … I suppose that when presently ‘disinflation’ also wins a bad name, the Chancellor will call it ‘nondisinflation’.” – Churchill, 1949

“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.” – US writer and political scientist Leo Rosten

“He aroha whakatō, he aroha ka puta mai – If kindness is sown, then kindness is what you shall receive.” – from Mauri Ora: Wisdom From the Māori World

“What the liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.” – Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”

– F Scott Fitzgerald

“We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are.”– JM Barrie