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Poor Bonar can't bear being called a liar. Now, I don't mind.
David Lloyd George
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Lies & Lieing
The main difference between Churchill and Powell is that Churchill did not have any desire to be martyred.
Humphry Berkeley
On Winston Churchill and Enoch Powell.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Winston Churchill (quotes about)
I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.
Arthur Balfour 1899
Category: Winston Churchill (quotes about)
Gladstone was a Tory in everything but essentials.
Arthur Balfour
Category: Liberal Politicians (quotes about)
I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
David Steel
Category: Liberal Politicians (quotes about)
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
Lord Rosebery
Category: Conservative Politicians (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)
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Neville Chamberlain
On Aneurin Bevan
Category: Labour Politicians (quotes about), Democracy
Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.
Lady Violet Bonham Carter 02/11/1964
On Andrew Bonar Law
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Leadership
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
Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
Andrew Bonar Law
Category: Liberal Politicians (quotes about)
Joe was the one who made the weather.
Winston Churchill
On Joseph Chamberlain.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
The furnace of the war has smelted out all base metals from him.
Stanley Baldwin 1943
Category: Winston Churchill (quotes about)
The last thing he did was to cheer Disraeli. It was not a very loud cheer, but it was a cheer.
William Ewart Gladstone
On Sir Robert Peel.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Then Lloyd George gets up and makes a moving speech telling Winston how fond he is of him. Winston cries slightly and mops his eyes.
Harold Nicolson 13/05/1940
On Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister
Category: Lloyd George (quotes about), Winston Churchill (quotes about)
