52 Metaphors for politics

In rather amazing fashion are women in many American communities beginning to realize that politics are as much their business as men's.

But let us beware of saying, with our latest literati, that politics are poetry, or a suitable subject for the poet.

"Politics is a game of wits," he said; "the smartest one wins, and gets in and divides the slush money.

Politics are therefore an important feature, and an almost indispensable element in such a work as mine.

Politics, as I see it, is an appeal to thirst, and nothing else.

Politics were the element in which he lived, and politicians were his chief associates outside the family circle, which he adorned.

Politics are the art of eating, drinking, sleeping, and wearing good clothes at the public expense.

What the body politic needed was a surgeon to cut away this abscess, eating its youth and strength.

Politics were an incident to Tomthe real thing was the fight!

Since Vanneschi is cunning enough to make us sing the roast beef of old Germany, I am persuaded it will revive; politics are the only hot-bed for keeping such a tender plant as Italian music alive in England.

If you are a Tory, or thought so by any man, I know it can proceed from nothing but your gratitude to a few people, who endeavoured to serve you, and whose politics were never your concern.

Politics is murder.

"It is better for us moderns to say with Napoleon, 'Politics are Destiny.'

Who could point to my coffin and say, 'Laws are better, politics are purer, or times are not so hard for the masses now, because this one man willed to lift up his fellows as far as the might of one strong life can reach?'

The principle on which he founded it was that politics are a branch of morals; accordingly he placed them on as high a level as any other duty of life, and spoke with withering indignation of the too common practice, and even theory, that a little insincerity, a little trickery, is allowable in politics, whereas it would not be in other matters.

But with her, politics were always an affair of the heart, as indeed were all her convictions.

When I was a young man, sir, politics in the South was a career for a gentleman, and I still can't see how he could be better engaged than in the service of his State or his country.

Like the old Chartists with whom I once spent an evening, they tell you that their politics have been 'all talk'all wordsand there are few among them, except those to whom politics has become a profession or a career, who hold on until through weariness and disappointment they learn new confidence from new knowledge.

Politics was perhaps the most interesting subject to her, as it has ever been to very cultivated women in France; and it was with the details of cabinets and military enterprises that she was most familiar.

Politics and literature are the highroads in England to that much-craved-for distinction, an admittance into the great world; and Dodington united these passports in his own person: he was a poetaster, and wrote political pamphlets.

Politics is one aspect of that more or less extensive social experience.

Our politics are yearly becoming more and more questions of principle, questions of right and wrong.

Politics is an after-work, a poor patching.

Politics ever have been the passion of Western men with more than average ability, and it required but little learning and culture under the sovereignty of "squatters" to become a member of the State legislature, especially in the border States, where population was sparse, and the people mostly poor and ignorant.

I neededthat politics isn't what countsit's brains and doing things!

52 Metaphors for  politics