Macmillan Cod Quotes

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

Harold Macmillan

#2. One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

Harold Macmillan

#3. I am not, nor will I ever be interested in the possibility of defeat.

Shannon MacMillan

#4. 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

#5. Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

Harold Macmillan

#6. It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Harold Macmillan

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

Harold Macmillan

#8. It's no use crying over spilt summits.

Harold Macmillan

#9. He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

Harold Macmillan

#10. 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

#11. I'd like that translated if I may.

British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan
on Nikita Khruschev's shoe banging at the UN General Assembly on 29th September 1960

Harold Macmillan

#12. 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.

Harold Macmillan

#13. He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

Harold Macmillan

#14. IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Margaret MacMillan

#15. You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Harold Macmillan

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

Margaret MacMillan

#19. a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,

Gilly Macmillan

#20. I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

Harold Macmillan

#21. What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Margaret MacMillan

#22. Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know.

Gilly Macmillan

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

Harold Macmillan

#24. You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!

Shannon MacMillan

#25. Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#26. It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Harold Macmillan

#27. 90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

Harold Macmillan

#28. We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

Harold Macmillan

#29. Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Harold Macmillan

#30. One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about it

Alan Macmillan Orr