Quotes by Arthur Balfour

• Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
• I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
• Enthusiasm moves the world.
• I never forgive, but I always forget.
• Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
• He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.