Thatcher Margaret - The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Thatcher: And Other Tory Legends

Richard Benson

I went to Oxford University but Ive
never let that hold me back.

Margaret Thatcher

I was told beforehand my arrival was
unscheduled, but on the way here I
passed a local cinema and it turns out
you were expecting me after all. The
billboard read The Mummy Returns .

Margaret Thatcher at a Tory Election Rally in Plymouth,
22 May 2001

I hope that one quality in which
I am not lacking is courage.

Margaret Thatcher

Ive got a womans ability to stick to a
job and get on with it when everyone
else walks off and leaves it.

Margaret Thatcher

I still do the cooking myself rush in,
peel the vegetables, put the roast in all
before I take off my hat.

Margaret Thatcher in an interview with the Telegraph , after
becoming spokeswoman for the Treasury, March 1966

I tend to look at things more logically
than do my colleagues.

Margaret Thatcher

I like to be made
a fuss of by a lot
of chaps.

Margaret Thatcher

I always appreciate the
other persons problem.

Margaret Thatcher

I cannot change my style. There are
many people who are reasonably
pleased that one gives a firm lead.

Margaret Thatcher on being criticised for not always
listening and being domineering in style

I usually make up my mind about a
man in ten seconds; and I very rarely
change it.

Margaret Thatcher

I am really very normal. Im just a
perfectly ordinary person.

Margaret Thatcher

THE IRON
LADY SPEAKS

You turn if you want to.
The ladys not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

If it is once again one
against 48, then I am very
sorry for the 48.

Margaret Thatcher

I dont mind how much my ministers
talk as long as they do what I say.

Margaret Thatcher

If you lead a country like Britain
then you have to have a touch of
iron about you.

Margaret Thatcher

Being prime minister is a lonely job
you cannot lead from the crowd.

Margaret Thatcher

I seem to smell the stench of
appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

There is only one small vowel
between ruin and run.
The small vowel is I.

Margaret Thatcher

Im not hard, Im frightfully soft.
But I will not be hounded.

Margaret Thatcher

I will not
change just to
court popularity.

Margaret Thatcher

I am not known for my objectives or
purposes being unclear.

Margaret Thatcher

To accuse me of being too
inflexible is poppycock.

Margaret Thatcher

I am no Darth Vader and you dont
have to protect yourselves from me.

Margaret Thatcher

OTHER TORY
LEGENDS ON
THATCHER

She was a tigress surrounded
by hamsters.

John Biffen

History will surely recognise her
achievements a leader with the
courage of her convictions, who
assailed the conventional wisdom
of her day, challenged and overthrew
the existing order, changed the
political map, and put her country
on its feet again.

Geoffrey Howe

It is quite clear that history will
record that Margaret Thatcher was the
greatest prime minister this country