Top 39 Quotes About Menzies
#1. I had read the book 1421 - The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course,
J. Maarten Troost
#2. The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
Lionel Murphy
#3. In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.
Shinzo Abe
#4. Sophie would be the first to share his home. His life. Normalcy. As normal as two broken people could make it. Guilt nagged him that they were coming together on such odd terms. Sophie Menzies deserved far more. He was getting far more than he deserved.
Laura Frantz
#5. Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
Robert Menzies
#6. When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
Robert Menzies
#7. I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
Robert Menzies
#8. Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.
Robert Menzies
#9. I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.
Tobias Menzies
#10. Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.
Robert Menzies
#12. It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
#13. One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
Robert Menzies
#14. It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
Menzies Campbell
#15. The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
Robert Menzies
#16. In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
Robert Menzies
#17. My priorities? The environment, the environment, the environment.
Menzies Campbell
#18. A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
Robert Menzies
#19. The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies
#20. Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.
Tobias Menzies
#21. I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.
Tobias Menzies
#22. What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
Robert Menzies
#23. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend ...
Robert Menzies
#24. My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
Robert Menzies
#25. I love little theatres because it's very intimate, and you can have a very easy rapport with the audience. Everyone's in the same room.
Tobias Menzies
#26. Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Robert Menzies
#27. Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.
Menzies Campbell
#28. We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.
Robert Menzies
#29. "I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
Robert Menzies
#30. I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
Robert Menzies
#31. The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.
Robert Menzies
#32. One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.
Robert Menzies
#33. An old liar told me here
To think ahead and save my money.
I should have spent it on ribbons.
I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather played
When the daft wife heard him resounding
In the deep pine woods in early November.
Menzies McKillop
#34. Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]
Menzies Campbell
#35. Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.
Robert Menzies
#36. Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.
Robert Menzies
#37. More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
Robert Menzies
#38. We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous
Menzies Campbell
#39. In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.
Menzies Campbell
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