#elf

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#almost #always #feel #home #politician

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#could #i #keep #like #myself

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#between #created #dislike #effect #groups

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#build #capital #capital investment #cost #each

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#anymore #away #bit #blew #cobwebs

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#real #skill #yourself

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#actor #admire #anonymous #being #explain

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#article #foreign #i #impresses #many