Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.
I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.
When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.
We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.
Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.
No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.
I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.
We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.
Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.
Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.