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
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.
forgiveness forgiving forget
I never forgive, but I always forget.
four world volume
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
party advice conservative
I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference
brother soup-kitchens giving
And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.
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.
country safety faithful
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
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.
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
country scotland needs
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.
winning important done
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
peace work matter
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
enthusiasm few moves speak trusted truth
It is unfortunate, considering enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth