Margaret Hilda Thatcher Famous Quotes
"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."
"What is success I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."
"If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman."
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
"I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together."
"If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts."
"Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true."
"I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years."
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)"
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Hilda Thatcher Quotations
"There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'"
Andre Gide
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Thomas Fuller
The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
A L Kitselman
"Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm."
Bertrand Russell
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
William Shakespeare
The city is the teacher of the man.
Simondes of Ceos
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
Real Live Preacher
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband About 30 pounds.
Cindy Gardner
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
Elbert Hubbard