Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

- Harold MacMillan

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Harold MacMillan

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

- Harold MacMillan

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

- Harold MacMillan

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

- Harold MacMillan

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

- Harold MacMillan

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

- Harold MacMillan

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

- Harold MacMillan

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

- Harold MacMillan

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

- Harold MacMillan

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

- Harold MacMillan

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

- Harold MacMillan

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

- Harold MacMillan

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

- Harold MacMillan

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

- Harold MacMillan

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

- Harold MacMillan

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

- Harold MacMillan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

- Harold MacMillan

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

- Harold MacMillan

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

- Harold MacMillan