The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of l…

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit …

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not ente…

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two bran…

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon