Alec Douglas-Home famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Fall #Return #Resolution
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Two #Political #Politics
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Missing #Mind #Age
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Sports #Rain #Heaven
"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#War #Errors #Principles
...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#War #Organization #Effort
My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Uncles #Wife #Wonder
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Integrity #Men #Reason
The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Doctors #Fit #Said
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.
-- Alec Douglas-Home

#Passion #Vanity #Excess

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