Denis Healey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
-- Denis Healey

#Wall #Business #Differences
World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.
-- Denis Healey

#Issues #Events #World
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.
-- Denis Healey

#Florence #Lamps #Stalking
Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak
-- Denis Healey

#Rich
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
-- Denis Healey

#People #Used #Taxpayers
If youâ€™re in a hole, stop digging.
-- Denis Healey

#Digging #Holes
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
-- Denis Healey

#Law #Digging #Firsts
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
-- Denis Healey

#Use #Politician #Dangerous
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
-- Denis Healey

#Employment #Economics #Achieve
Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
-- Denis Healey

#Sarcastic #Sheep
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
-- Denis Healey

#Funny #Life #Law
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
-- Denis Healey

#Country #War #Gentleman

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