Charisma Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

“It has been said that after meeting with the great British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, you left feeling he was the smartest person…

— Liz Wiseman

“Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of…

— Marian Deegan

I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and…

— James May

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

— Samuel Johnson

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain…

— Alan Moore

Whenever I went to England I always see the man inside George Best. I knew that George - not the famous person with his…

— Eusebio

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw…

— David Low

A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and…

— Nicholas Fairbairn

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits…

— Thomas Gainsborough

“(Exchange with Winston Churchill) Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: 'I didn't realise people like you were clever.'…

— Steph McGovern