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Alec Douglas-Home Quotes

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

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.

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

Alec Douglas-Home
Integrity, Men, Reason

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

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).

The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

Alec Douglas-Home
Doctors, Fit, Said

...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

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

"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

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

Alec Douglas-Home
Fall, Return, Resolution

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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