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the Saar resembled some ghastly transvestite – a very muscular man badly in need of a shave who was wearing lipstick and high heels in a hopeless attempt to pass himself off as a pretty coquette.
“Wisdom is at no time more conspicuous, nor more amiable, than in the acknowledgement of error.”
― The Prime Ministers: 1721–2020 Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership
― The Prime Ministers: 1721–2020 Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership
“Here were no gaunt mistresses like Miss Gaunt, those many who had stalked past Miss Brodie in the corridors saying “good morning” with predestination in their smiles.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“If directionally motivated reasoning is like being a soldier fighting off threatening evidence, accuracy motivated reasoning is like being a scout forming a map of the strategic landscape. What’s beyond that next hill? Is that a bridge over the river or are my eyes deceiving me? Where are the dangers, the shortcuts, the opportunities?”
― The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
― The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood”.”
― Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s
― Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s
“The stand-up comic Bernard Manning used to tell a joke about Alexey Kosygin being shown round a British factory by Edward Heath, and being shocked by the slack working hours and the prevalence of tea breaks: ‘In Russia,’ he boasts, ‘we work from six in the morning till ten o’clock at night.’ ‘You couldn’t get these lads to do that,’ says Heath. ‘Why not?’ demands the Soviet premier, and Heath replies: ‘Because they’re all communists.”
― Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s
― Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s
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