Quotes

11 Quotes filtered by David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

David Lloyd George

To Dingle Foot.

Category: Conviction

Tags: Conviction, David Lloyd George, Politics

To anyone with politics in his blood this place is like a pub to a drunkard.

David Lloyd George

To Robert Boothby.

Category: House of Commons

Tags: David Lloyd George, House of Commons, Parliament

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

David Lloyd George 12/1910

Category: Aristocracy

Tags: Aristocracy, David Lloyd George, Miscellaneous

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

David Lloyd George 1911

Category: Class, Men & Chauvenism

Tags: Class, David Lloyd George, Men & Chauvenism, Miscellaneous, Politics

Poor Bonar can't bear being called a liar. Now, I don't mind.

David Lloyd George

Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Lies & Lieing

Tags: David Lloyd George, Humour, Lies & Lieing, Quotes About...

A soft-nosed torpedo.

David Lloyd George 1916

On Asquith.

Category: Insulting Liberals

Tags: David Lloyd George, Insulting Liberals, Insults

You mean it is Mr Balfour's poodle!

David Lloyd George 26/01/1907

On the House of Lords, in response to a Tory MP describing the Lords as the watchdog of the constitution.

Category: House of Lords

Tags: David Lloyd George, House of Lords, Parliament

A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep as two Dreadnoughts, and they are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

David Lloyd George 09/10/1909

Category: Aristocracy, House of Lords

Tags: Aristocracy, David Lloyd George, House of Lords, Miscellaneous, Parliament

A country fit for heroes to live in.

David Lloyd George 24/11/1918

What he wanted for the returning British troops at the end of the war.

Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever

Tags: 100 Best Quotes Ever, David Lloyd George, Pick of the bunch

The Right Honourable Gentleman has sat for so long on the fence that the iron has entered his soul.

David Lloyd George 07/1931

After Sir John Simon crossed the floor to sit with the Tories over the imposition of a Land tax.

Category: Crossing the Floor

Tags: Crossing the Floor, David Lloyd George, Parliament

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.

David Lloyd George

Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Liberals

Tags: 100 Best Quotes Ever, David Lloyd George, Insulting Liberals, Insults, Pick of the bunch

Random Speech

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution, [they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. [we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King. It was not the sort of revolution that France's was - 'Liberty, quality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then, of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

Margaret Thatcher

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