Margaret Thatcher Famous Quotes



Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.


Margaret Thatcher Quotations






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Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken

"We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege."
Lawton Chiles

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."
Charles De Gaulle

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Jeseph Joubert

"To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
Napoleon I

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."
Sophocles

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
Louise Nevelson