Quotes

84 Quotes filtered by insults

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

Tags: Benjamin Disraeli, Insulting Liberals, Insults

There but for the Grace of God, goes God.

Winston Churchill

On Sir Stafford Cripps

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Winston Churchill

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)

Tags: Insulting Conservatives, Insults, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Quotes About..., Tam Dalyell

A timid old Tory.

Barbara Castle 18/09/1980

On James Callaghan

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Barbara Castle, Insulting Labour, Insults

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983

On Harold Wilson

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Neil Kinnock

He couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding.

Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983

On Tony Benn

Category: Insulting Labour, Labour Politicians (quotes about)

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Neil Kinnock, Quotes About...

Like being nuzzled by an old ram.

Geoffrey Howe 28/06/1978

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Geoffrey Howe, Insulting Labour, Insults

Like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Denis Healey 14/06/1978

On Geoffrey Howe

Category: Insulting Conservatives

Tags: Denis Healey, Insulting Conservatives, Insults

A loutish Minister of the thuggish tendency.

Michael Meacher 28/07/1986

On Norman Tebbit

Category: Insulting Conservatives

Tags: Insulting Conservatives, Insults, Michael Meacher

Dr Strangelove of the economic world.

James Callaghan 16/05/1979

On Keith Joseph

Category: Insulting Conservatives

Tags: Insulting Conservatives, Insults, James Callaghan

He's arrogant, orthopardically arrogant in every corpuscle.

Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983

On David Owen

Category: Insults - General

Tags: Insults, Insults - General, Neil Kinnock

Arthur Scargill is a bloody lunatic.

Neil Kinnock 15/10/1983

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Neil Kinnock

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Neil Kinnock 22/02/1987

On the Tories

Category: Insulting Conservatives

Tags: Insulting Conservatives, Insults, Neil Kinnock

Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

David Winnick 26/03/1987

To Norman Fowler about Edwina Currie

Category: Insulting Conservatives

Tags: David Winnick, Insulting Conservatives, Insults

Peter Mandelson is someone who can skulk in broad daylight.

Simon Hoggart

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Simon Hoggart

Run a country? They couldn't run a Women's Institute raffle.

Norman Tebbit

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Insulting Labour, Insults, Norman Tebbit

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

Ann Widdecombe

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Ann Widdecombe, Insulting Labour, Insults

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big aggressive powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

George Galloway

On Robin Cook

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: George Galloway, Insulting Labour, Insults

Brian's supposed to be in charge of Africa but he spends most of his time in bloody Dublin... I mean he's a liability.

Henry McLeish

Henry McLeish discussing Brian Wilson with Helen Liddell after the Westminster Election, inadvertently recorded by a radio reporter.

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Henry McLeish, Insulting Labour, Insults

He's a patronising bastard. I mean he is... I mean he really is.

Henry McLeish

Speaking to Helen Liddell about Dr John Reid

Category: Insulting Labour

Tags: Henry McLeish, Insulting Labour, Insults

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Margaret Thatcher: Oh, arms to Argentina, you won't will you?

Ronald Reagan: No, we won't.

Margaret Thatcher

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