83 Quotes filtered by Miscellaneous
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
Ernest Bevin 18/08/1941
Category: Property
A man falls in love through hus eyes, a woman through her ears.
Woodrow Wyatt 1981
Category: Men & Chauvenism
I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.
William Whitelaw
Category: Men & Chauvenism
It is important to recognise that Mrs Thatcher is a woman. They're not like us and it's no good pretending that they are.
Peter Thorneycroft
Category: Men & Chauvenism
I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.
Jo Grimond
Category: Men & Chauvenism
I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.
Barbara Castle 05/10/1969
Category: Flirtation, Feminism
Reporter: Who wears the trousers in your house?
Denis Thatcher: I do. And I wash and iron them.
Denis Thatcher
Category: Men & Chauvenism
Dennis Skinner: How many civil servants are a) men and b) women?
Tim Renton: All of them
Tim Renton 06/02/1992
Answer to a parliamentary question.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Repartee, Men & Chauvenism
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
The atrocious crime of being a young man I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
William Pitt 29/01/1741
Category: Youth
It is fitting that we should have buried the Unknown prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier.
H H Asquith 1922
At Andrew Bonar Law's funeral in Westminster Abbey.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Death
Mr Canning's death will not do all the good it might have done at a later period. But it is still a great public advantage.
Duke of Wellington 1827
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Death
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
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.
Winston Churchill 11/08/1947
Category: Property
Government has no other end than the preservation of property.
John Locke 1690
Category: What is Government, Property
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.
Harold Wilson 20/02/1970
Referring to the Conservative Policy conference held at Selsdon Park a few weeks earlier.
Category: Individualism
Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.
Ramsay MacDonald 1931
On forming the National Government in 1931
Category: Aristocracy
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.
Idi Amin 1977
Category: Murder, Law & Order
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli 01/05/1865
Category: Murder
