Robert Menzies Quotes

In All My Life I Have Treated The Press With Marked Contempt And Remarkable Success.

Experiment Is Necessary In Establishing An Academy, But Certain Principles Must Apply To This Business Of Art As To Any Other Business Which Affects The Artistic Tic Sense Of The Community. Great Art Speaks A Language Which Every Intelligent Person Can Understand. The People Who Call Themselves Modernists Today Speak A Different Language.

A Manager May Be Tough And Practical, Squeezing Out, While The Going Is Good, The Last Ounce Of Profit And Dividend . . .

The Long-established And Noble Rule Of Law, One Of The Greatest Products Of The Character And Tradition Of British History, Has Suffered A Deadly Blow. Blackmail Has Become Respectable.

Considering The Company I Keep In This Place, That Is Hardly Surprising.

Two Days In This City Is Worth Two Months In New York.

My Headmaster Chastised Me With A Diabolical Instrument A Leather Strap Tacked To A Piece Of Wood But He Taught Me With Such Villainous Success That I Am Now Prime Minister.

Never Take Any Notice Of Anonymous Letters, Unless You Get A Few Thousand On The Same Subject.

One Speaks With Great Respect Of Economists, If Only Because They Represent Such A Variety Of Opinions.

I Am One Of The Few Men Honest Enough To Say They Do Not Understand Women.

"i Pay My Taxes," Says Somebody, As If That Were An Act Of Virtue Instead Of One Of Compulsion.

Men Of Genius Are Not To Be Analysed By Commonplace Rules. The Rest Of Us Who Have Been Or Are Leaders, More Commonplace In Our Quality, Will Do Well To Remember Two Things. One Is Never To Forget Posterity When Devising A Policy. The Other Is Never To Think Of Posterity When Making A Speech.