17 Quotes filtered by Insulting Liberals
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Insulting Liberals, House of Commons
The Conservatives conserve what you have got, the Liberals are liberal with it and Labour gives it all away.
Ted Hunt
Category: Insulting Labour, Insulting Liberals, Conservatism
Oh, look! They're selling Liberals!
Norman Tebbit 06/2001
On spotting flip flops being sold at ? £4.99 a pair.
Category: Insulting Liberals, 2001 General Election
If a traveller were informed that such a man were leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect.
Benjamin Disraeli
On Lord John Russell
Category: Insulting Liberals
As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately, none of the sound ideas is original, and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold Macmillan 1961
Category: Insulting Liberals, Ideas
It's like an old Rolls Royce backfiring and spluttering.
Harold Nicolson 20/01/1943
On Lloyd George
Category: Insulting Liberals, Lloyd George (quotes about)
Shot any dogs lately?
Cyril Smith 01/1976
To Jeremy Thorpe
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Liberals
He was generally thought to be very pusillanimous in dealing with foreign affairs. This is not at all the impression I derived. He was wholly ignorant.
Lord Cromer 29/11/1913
In a letter to Lord Newton describing his view of Gladstone.
Category: Insulting Liberals
His smile is like the brass knocker on a coffin.
Sir Henry Channon 09/12/1940
On Sir John Simon after a meeting with Lord Halifax.
Category: Insulting Liberals
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.
John Maynard Keynes
On Lloyd George
Category: Insulting Liberals, Lloyd George (quotes about)
The only thing Roy Jenkins ever fought for was a table for two at Mirabelle's.
Anonymous 1983
Category: Insulting Liberals
He is like the smallpox. Everybody is obliged to have him once in their lives.
George Canning
On Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth
Category: Insulting Liberals
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli 1878
On Gladstone
Category: Insulting Liberals
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.
David Lloyd George
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Liberals
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipalled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hyposcrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
On William Gladstone
Category: Insulting Liberals
If a traveller were informed such a man was Leader of the House of Commons he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect.
Benjamin Disraeli
On Lord John Russell
Category: Insulting Liberals
