Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DLwas a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and later Foreign Secretary...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 July 1848
Arthur Balfour quotes about
looks scottish british
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
home government looks
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.
clarity liability
Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
war cases plenty
There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.
four world volume
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
law heaven sublime
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
art school men
He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.
kings tyranny-of-the-majority may
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
men heaven age
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
men race space
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.
enemy biographies should
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
funny art book
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
men promise young
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
politics moments comfortable
I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.