194 Quotes filtered by politics
Peel's smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
Daniel O'Connell 26/02/1835
On Sir Robert Peel
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Appearance
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
David Lloyd George
To Dingle Foot.
Category: Conviction
A lie can be half way round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan 1976
Category: Lies & Lieing, Truth
Attlee seemed determined to make a trumpet sound like a train whistle.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Labour, Speechmaking
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Category: Conviction
Listening to a speech by Neville Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworths; everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Speechmaking
Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?
Ellen Wilkinson
A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Category: Lies & Lieing, Truth
Nobody knows me. Why should they? I just tell people I'm the one that looks like Edwina Currie.
Gillian Shephard 04/1992
On her appointment as Employment Secretary.
Category: Appearance
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
Lord Rosebery
Category: Class, Politics is...
Great leaders of the Parties are not elected, they are evolved.
Ernest Pretyman 20/03/1921
To the Conservative Parliamentary Party
Category: Leaders, Leadership Elections, Leadership
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
William Pitt 09/01/1770
Category: Power
It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.
Lord Melbourne
Category: Unity
All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
Lord Mancroft 1967
Category: Equality
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
Lord Macaulay
Category: Speechmaking, Truth
