Anthony Sampson Quotes (12 Quotes)

The great body of managers ... spend their whole careers climbing up inside one great Leviathan, with little contact with anyone outside.

I find it depressing, like a stately old home that has been thrown open to the public.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

The real rulers of England are not so much in the center of a solar system as in a cluster of interlocking circles, each one largely preoccupied with its own professionalism and expertise and touching others only at one edge. . .

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to the KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to ... the GCMG (God Calls Me God).

London clubs remain insistent on keeping people out, long after they have stopped wanting to come in.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames.

This is making us feel like superstars. This is one of the best moments of my life.

In the person of the prime minister several different strands come together. Dukes, Eton, Balliol, the Guards, clubs, the Church and Whitehall all jostle together behind that mustache.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.