45 Quotes By Margaret Thatcher


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

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher on money

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher on money

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Margaret Thatcher on money

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher on patience

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher on politics

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher on politics

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher on politics

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

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher on power

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher on power

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher on success

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher on time

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher on time

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher on time

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher on time

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher on travel

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher on truth

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
Margaret Thatcher on women