My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

- Alec Douglas-Home

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; va…

- Alec Douglas-Home

The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.

- Alec Douglas-Home

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.

- Alec Douglas-Home

...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the pres…

- Alec Douglas-Home

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the princip…

- Alec Douglas-Home

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

- Alec Douglas-Home

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

- Alec Douglas-Home

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

- Alec Douglas-Home