Quote #18
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
More from John Morley
- There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.
- In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.
- It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
- Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
- You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
- Literature-the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.