Denis Thatcher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
-- Denis Thatcher

#Country #Spring #Party
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.
-- Denis Thatcher

#Happy Life #Thinking #Objectivity
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
-- Denis Thatcher

#Giving #Gin And Tonic #Sake
(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.
-- Denis Thatcher

#Marriage #Iron #House
For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.
-- Denis Thatcher

#Loyalty #Years #World
When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep
-- Denis Thatcher

#Balls #Saving #England
When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.
-- Denis Thatcher

#Golf #Play

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

Denis Thatcher famous quotes

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