Harold MacMillan

“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”

“I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.”

“Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.”

“He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.”

“To be alive at all involves some risk.”

“I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”