Alan Clark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
-- Alan Clark

#True Friend #Sharks #Blood
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichÃ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
-- Alan Clark

#Work #Apology #Giving
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
-- Alan Clark

#Inevitable Death #Political #Politics
There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
-- Alan Clark

#Senior #Party #Political
The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.
-- Alan Clark

#Night #Years #People
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
-- Alan Clark

#Helping #Conservation #Protect

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.
True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!
In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.
After the clinch, it doesn't matter what happens, one way or another, we're going to hit the ground, and we'll be in my world. The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim.
I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Alan Clark famous quotes

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