A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.
CLEMENT ATTLEEAn empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
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A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
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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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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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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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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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