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I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.
— Harold Macmillan
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
— Harold Macmillan
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
— Harold Macmillan
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
— Harold Macmillan
remember this old Zen joke, "Don't just do something, sit there!" I can think of no better market advice when you are feeling emotional.
— Palgrave Macmillan Trade
But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.
— Margaret MacMillan
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
— Harold Macmillan
We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
— Whitney MacMillan
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 it's enough.
— Harold Macmillan
China. The Kaiser had temporarily
— Margaret MacMillan
The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.
— Margaret MacMillan
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
— Harold Macmillan
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
— Harold Macmillan
Seize the day - be brave - be independent - be thoughtful - don't be scared to make mistakes - keep learning - all those things, all the time
— Gilly Macmillan
I am not, nor will I ever be interested in the possibility of defeat.
— Shannon MacMillan
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
— Harold Macmillan
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
— Harold Macmillan
If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.
— Duncan MacMillan
Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire.
— Margaret MacMillan
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
— Margaret MacMillan
be whispered more now, only spoken of in hushed terms, because Lucas Grantham might
— Gilly Macmillan
What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.
— Margaret MacMillan
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
— Harold Macmillan
But here's the thing; none of us deserve anything. That's an illusion we all exist under
— Gilly Macmillan
One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
— Harold Macmillan
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
— Harold Macmillan
I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.
— Harold Macmillan
It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.
— Harold Macmillan
Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.
— Whitney MacMillan
90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.
— Harold Macmillan
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.
— Harold Macmillan
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
— Patrick Kavanagh
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
— Harold Macmillan
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
— Harold Macmillan
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers
— Harold Macmillan
Grace has such simple needs. Wake, give love, receive love, refuel, expend energy, sleep. I love that about her.
— Gilly Macmillan
If you believe in yourself, things are possible.
— Shannon MacMillan
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
— Harold Macmillan
One word can change your life forever.I love you
I hate you
Think about it — Alan Macmillan Orr
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
— Harold Macmillan
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
— Harold Macmillan
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
— Harold Macmillan
Dream big and surround yourself with people that believe in you
— Shannon MacMillan
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
— Harold Macmillan
We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.
— Harold Macmillan
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
— Harold Macmillan
and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping
— Gilly Macmillan
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
— Harold Macmillan
What might happen if writing were a shared endeavor, meant t connect people instead of being hoarded as a tool of power and privilege.
— Kathy MacMillan
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
— Harold Macmillan
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
— Harold Macmillan
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
— Harold Macmillan
Most of our people have never had it so good.
— Harold Macmillan
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
— Harold Macmillan
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
— Harold Macmillan
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— Margaret MacMillan
If someone lies to you habitually, you can't ever trust them. It erodes relationships.
— Gilly Macmillan
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
— Harold Macmillan
don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm desperate to distract Dad and Becky, to stop the thing that's happening.
— Gilly Macmillan
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
— Harold Macmillan
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
— Harold Macmillan
In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be.
— Gilly Macmillan
I'd like that translated, if I may.
— Harold Macmillan
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
— Harold Macmillan
I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness, and all, and not forensically examined its faults.
— Gilly Macmillan
all knew that other people were at work elsewhere, spreading the message far more effectively,
— Gilly Macmillan
a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,
— Gilly Macmillan
Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!
— Margaret MacMillan
It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored.
— Harold Macmillan
