Alec Douglas-Home Quotes

• There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Life, Two, Political

  1964 Speech, Jan.

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• A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Integrity, Men, Reason

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• To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Missing, Mind, Age

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• Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Sports, Rain, Heaven

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Doctors, Fit, Said

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• ...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization

  Alec Douglas-Home

  War, Organization, Effort

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• Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Passion, Vanity, Excess

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• "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

  Alec Douglas-Home

  War, Errors, Principles

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• For ebbing resolution ne'er returns,
  But falls still further from its former shore.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Fall, Return, Resolution

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• My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Uncles, Wife, Wonder

  In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.

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