Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.
Carol Thatcher 2001
Category: Appearance
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
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
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)
Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 11/09/1906
Category: Appearance
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)
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.
Horace Walpole
On Lord North
Category: Appearance, Insults - General
The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
Margaret Thatcher 1974
Category: Appearance
It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
William Hague
On his baldness
Category: Appearance
I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.
Iain Duncan Smith
Category: Appearance
Several things, she's got a good pair of legs.
Denis Thatcher
In answer to a question on what attracted him to Margaret Thatcher
Category: Appearance
May I say that my Right Honourable Friend the Prime Minister is looking jolly nice today?
Edwina Currie 07/1990
At Prime Minister's Questions just after announcing she thought the Prime Minister should retire
Category: Appearance, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Ladies & Gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my green chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my hair softly waved. The Iron Lady of the western world? Me? A cold warrior? Well, yes - if that is how they wish to interpret my defence of the values and freedom fundamental to our way of life.
Margaret Thatcher 20/01/1976
Category: Cold War, Appearance
A small, balding, ex-communist, Celtic-supporting, Catholic and Unionist. Therefore everyone seems to hate me.
Dr John Reid 2001
Category: Appearance
