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  • Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization.When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts.

    - Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
      Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

  • To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.

    -Anonymous
      In the Washingtonian, Nov.

  • Harold Macmillan held his party together by not allowing his left wing to see what his right wing was doing.

    -Baroness
    Attributed.

  • On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

    -Jane Austen
    Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.6.

  • The sooner every party breaks up the better.

    -Jane Austen
      Emma, ch.25.

  • Labour is the Party of law and order in Britain todaytough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.

    -Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton) Blair
      Speech as Shadow Home Secretary, Labour Party Conference, Sep.

  • Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

    - Henry StJohn, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
      Idea of a Patriot King. Published in1749.

  • If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.

  • The party's over, it's time to call it a day.

    - Betty pseudonym of  Elizabeth Cohen Comden
      'The Party's Over' (with  Adolphe Green, music by Jule Styne).

  • Party is organized opinion.

    - Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
      Speech, Oxford, 25 Nov.

  •    Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
      'Echoes of the  Jazz  Age', Scribner's Magazine, Nov.

  • Some of us will fight and fight again to save the party we love.We will fight and fight againtobring back sanityand honestyand dignity, so that our party, with its great past, may retain its glory and its greatness.

    - Hugh Gaitskell
      Denouncing unilateralists trying to gain control of the party. Labour Party conference speech, Oct.

  • Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    - Allen Ginsberg
    Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

  • A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.

    - Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham
      On the Profumo affair, BBC  T V,13  Jun.

  • He serves his party best who serves his country best.

    -J Milton Hayes
      Inaugural address, 5 Mar.

  • If I'dseenmeataparty,I'dneverhavegoneupandmet me.

    - Dustin Hoffman
      In Dateline, NBC  TV broadcast, 8 Mar.

  • Honour is not the exclusive property of any political party.

    - Herbert Clark Hoover
      In Christian Science Monitor, 21 May.

  • Heard there was a party.Came.

    -Lady Peel Munston
    Explaining her presence after staggering to the nearest house, that of film actor  John Gilbert, when she was involved English dramatist  and  jeweller,  of  Dutch  extraction.  His  seven plays  were  among  the  first  to  put  middle-class  rather   than royal characters on the English stage.

  • While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

    -Joseph R(aymond) McCarthy
      Speech at  Wheeling, West Virginia, 9 Feb, which marked the beginning of the McCarthy 'witch hunts' for communists.

  •    When a man reaches old age, he will die and the same is true of a party.

    -Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
      Collected in Selected Works (1975), vol.4.

  • At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

    -W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
      A Writer's Notebook (published1949).

  • A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.

    -John Stuart Mill
      On Liberty.

  • The Conservatives, as being by the law of theirexistence the stupidest party.

    -John Stuart Mill
    Considerations on Representative Government, ch.7, note.

  • Party on, dude!

    - Mike Myers
       As Wayne Campbell in Wayne's World.

  •    'Who controls the past,'ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
      Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.1, ch.3.

  • The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

    -Will Rogers
      The Illiterate Digest,'Breaking into theWriting Game'.

  • The Holy Spirit is the invisible third party who stands between me and the other, making us mutually aware.

    -JohnVincent Taylor
      The Go-Between God.

  • After three general election victories, leading the only party with clear policies, resolutely carried out, I intend to continue.

    - Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
      On Michael Heseltine's challenge for the leadership of the Conservative Party, in the SundayTimes,18 Nov.

  • Morality is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger party.

    -Thrasymachus   5c
    Quoted in Plato Republic, 338b (translated by RobinWaterfield, 1993).

  • Party platforms are contracts with the people.

    - Harry S Truman
      Memoirs:Years of Trial and Hope.

  •    The party must protect itself against the activities of small groups of inflexible political persuasion†having in common only their arrogant dogmatism† I have no wish to lead a party of political zombies.

    - (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
      Labour Party Conference, 30 Sep.

  •    A constant effort to keep a party together, without sacrificing either principle or the essentials of basic strategy, is the very stuff of political leadership. Macmillan was canonized for it.

    - (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
      FinalTerm:The Labour Government1974^76.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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