A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWe have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
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