Quotes from Robert Menzies

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.