List of Arthur Balfour Quotes

His Majesty's Government Looks With Favour Upon The Establishment In Palestine Of A National Home For The Jews.

I Do Not Stare At A Gentleman In Distress.

Biography Should Be Written By An Acute Enemy.

I Look Forward To A Time When Irish Patriotism Will As Easily Combine With British Patriotism As Scottish Patriotism Combines Now.

Though The Parallel Is Not Complete, It Is Safe To Say That Science Will Never Touch Them Unaided By Its Practical Applications. Its Wonders May Be Catalogued For Purposes Of Education, They May Be Illustrated By Arresting Experiments, By Numbers And Magnitudes Which Startle Or Fatigue The Imagination But They Will Form No Familiar Portion Of The Intellectual Furniture Of Ordinary Men Unless They Be Connected, However Remotely, With The Conduct Of Ordinary Life.

Kant, As We All Know, Compared Moral Law To The Starry Heavens, And Found Them Both Sublime. On The Naturalistic Hypothesis We Should Rather Compare It To The Protective Blotches On A Beetle's Back, And Find Them Both Ingenious.

Man, So Far As Natural Science By Itself Is Able To Teach Us, Is No Longer The Final Cause Of The Universe, The Heaven-descended Heir Of All The Ages. His Very Existence Is An Accident, His Story A Brief And Transitory Episode In The Life Of One Of The Meanest Of The Planets.

Herbert Asquith's Clarity Is A Great Liability Because He Has Nothing To Say.

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.

Science Preceded The Theory Of Science, And Is Independent Of It. Science Preceded Naturalism, And Will Survive It.

I Am More Or Less Happy When Being Praised, Not Very Comfortable When Being Abused, But I Have Moments Of Uneasiness When Being Explained.

In Effort Happiness Idleness Life Pleasure Superstition Support Trouble Work The Superstition That All Our Hours Of Work Are A Minus Quantity In The Happiness Of Life, And All The Hours Of Idleness Are Plus Ones, Is A Most Ludicrous And Pernicious Doctrine, And Its Greatest Support Comes From Our Not Taking Sufficient Trouble, Not Making A Real Effort, To Make Work As Near Pleasure As It Can Be.