47 Quotes by Clement Attlee

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

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.