Famous quotes containing the words elder, statesman and/or british:
“As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”
—Aristotle (384–22 B.C.)
“There’s nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.”
—Melvyn Bragg (b. 1939)