An influential British politician kept pestering Disraeli for a baronetcy. The
Prime Minister could not see his way to obliging the man but he managed to refuse
him without hurting his feelings. He said, “I am sorry I cannot give you a
baronetcy, but I can give you something better: you can tell your friends that I
offered you the baronetcy and that you turned it down.
🙂
An influential British politician kept pestering Disraeli for a baronetcy. The
Prime Minister could not see his way to obliging the man but he managed to refuse
him without hurting his feelings. He said, “I am sorry I cannot give you a
baronetcy, but I can give you something better: you can tell your friends that I
offered you the baronetcy and that you turned it down.
🙂