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 – Margaret Thatcher

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it – Margaret Thatcher

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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus – Margaret Thatcher

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage – Margaret Thatcher

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive – Margaret Thatcher