Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, QC was a British politician, barrister and writer. He became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general election as a last-minute candidate, succeeding his father. He was an MP until 1997, and then elevated to the House of Lords. Never a frontbencher, Janner was particularly known for his work on Select Committees; he chaired the Select Committee on Employment for a time. He was associated with a number of Jewish organisations including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, of which he was chairman from 1978 to 1984, and was later prominent in the field of education about the Holocaust.
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.