Quotes by Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money…and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister…You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

Brother

Giving

Soup Kitchens

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biographies

Enemy

Should

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

Change

Knowledge

Religious

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Inspirational

Moving

Optimistic

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Art

Men

School

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Art

Book

Funny

Herbert Asquith’s clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

Clarity

Liability

His Majesty’s Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

Government

Home

Majesty

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Moments

Political

Politics

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

Done

Important

Winning

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British

Brother

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Country

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Enemy

Faithful

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Four

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Giving

Government

Home

Ifs

Important

Inspirational

Kings

Knowledge

Liability

Life

Looks

Majesty

Majority

Matter

May

Men

Moments

Moving

Needs

Never Forget

Optimistic

Peace

Political

Politics

Race

Real

Religious

Safety

School

Scotland

Scottish

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Quotes by Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Herbert Asquith’s clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

His Majesty’s Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

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