Politics is the art of the next best.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Politics is not an exact science.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Politics ruins the character.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Politics is the art of the next best.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

No civilization other than that which is Christian is worth seeking or possessing.

People never lie so much as after a hunt during a war or before an election.

Love is blind friendship tries not to notice.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.