106 Quotes filtered by margaret thatcher (quotes about)
She was defeated by a collection of 'has beens', 'thought they should have beens', and 'not worth a row of beans'!
Jacques Arnold
On Margaret Thatcher's fall from power.
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
When you see the way she was done down, you are bound to think that the people who organised the coup must have had a conscience bypass.
Neil Kinnock 19/08/1991
On the fall of Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
The great She-Elephant - she has an impenetrably thick hide, she is liable to mount charges in all directions and she is always thinking on the trot.
Denis Healey
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
The Tories think they are witnessing the retirement of a popular headmistress under circumstances that some might regret.
Tony Benn 22/11/1990
On Margaret Thatcher's resignation.
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
She is so clearly the best man among them.
Barbara Castle 11/02/1975
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
If she would only occasionally come in with a smut on her nose, her hair dishevelled, looking as if she's been wrestling with her soul, as I do.
Barbara Castle
Category: Appearance, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I want you not to be old.
Neil Kinnock 06/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.
Denis Healey 05/09/1989
Category: France, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Mrs Thatcher has hijacked the Tory Party from the landowners and given it to the estate agents.
Julian Critchley 05/09/1989
Category: Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.
Julian Critchley
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
We will work within the Movement to get what we suggest, but we will work ten times harder to see that Margaret Thatcher will never become Prime Minister of this country.
Michael Foot 02/10/1978
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.
Dame Rebecca West
To Jilly Cooper
Category: Appearance, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
She looks like an angel cake but God help Heath.
Jean Rook 27/11/1974
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Ted heath disliked two things almost above all else: people who disagreed with him and women. Margaret was both.
Penny Junor 1983
On Ted Heath's relationship with Margaret Thatcher.
Category: Edward Heath (quotes about), Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
With regard to opinion in the Thatcher household, the Prime Minister does not have a monopoly on opinion.
Margaret Thatcher 20/01/1980
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
On behalf of the people of Ulster I brand you a traitor and a liar.
Reverend Ian Paisley 22/02/1987
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Northern Ireland
She is a bounder, a liar, a deceiver, a cheat, a crook and a disgrace to the House of Commons.
Tam Dalyell 22/02/1987
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Politicians are either warriors or healers. Margaret Thatcher is a healer.
Patrick Cosgrave
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Teacher to French Primary School class: What is the name of the Queen of England?
Little girl: Elizabeth Thatcher?
Anonymous 23/03/1990
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Mrs Thatcher: "You eat meat don't you?"
Alan Clark: "No, I do not, prime minister."
Mrs Thatcher: "Well, you wear leather shoes, don't you?"
Alan Clark: "I am sure, prime minister, you would not wish to see your ministers walking around in plastic footwear.
Alan Clark
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
