#in

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#behind #blessed #both #good #him

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#does #living #mean #means #tradition

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

— Harold MacMillan

#away #best #curtain #falls #go

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#cliche #foreign #forever #indiscretion #poised

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

#liberals #mixture #none #offer #original

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

— Harold MacMillan

#between #britain #dinosaur #most #role

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#cliche #forever #indiscretion #poised

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#comfort #conflicting #fact #find #great

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

#better #decency #decent #enough #god

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

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable