Margaret Thatcher Quotes

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

This lady is not for turning.

It’s a funny old world.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I’m happy as a dog with two dicks

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

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

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that… and I think I am fine.

You don’t win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.