Famous quotes containing the words stanley, baldwin, prime and/or minister:
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“Vanessa wanted to be a ballerina. Dad had such hopes for her.... Corin was the academically brilliant one, and a fencer of Olympic standard. Everything was expected of them, and they fulfilled all expectations. But I was the one of whom nothing was expected. I remember a game the three of us played. Vanessa was the President of the United States, Corin was the British Prime Minister—and I was the royal dog.”
—Lynn Redgrave (b. 1943)
“Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)