Quotes by
David Lloyd George |
1863-1945 , British Prime Minister [1916-1922]
British prime minister (1916–22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death. | 23 quotes | 3,779 visits |
Quotations
| • | When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit. 8 |
| • | A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. 7 |
| • | There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. 7 |
| • | If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control. 5 |
| • | We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink. 5 |
| • | Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision. In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. 5 |
| • | Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. 4 |
| • | Four specters haunt the poor: old age, accident, sickness and unemployment 4 |
| • | Sincerity is the surest road to confidence. 4 |
| • | Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. 4 |
| • | The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. 4 |
| • | Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. 4 |
| • | You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex. 3 |
| • | If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done. 3 |
| • | You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience. 3 |
| • | What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. 3 |
| • | The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. 2 |
| • | With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. 2 |
| • | Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. 2 |
| • | Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. 2 |
| • | Doctrinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. 2 |
| • | Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary. 2 |
Stupid Quotes
| • | Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war. (said it in 1934) 3 |
