Quotes from Anthony Eden

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.