Accounts Quote by Arthur Balfour

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

— Arthur Balfour

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up…

— Arthur Balfour

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

— Arthur Balfour

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

— Arthur Balfour

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of…

— Arthur Balfour

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather…

— Arthur Balfour

“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of…

— Arthur Balfour

I never forgive, but I always forget.

— Arthur Balfour

“Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.”

— Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

— Arthur Balfour

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

— Arthur Balfour

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

— Arthur Balfour