Neville Chamberlain Quotes

15 quotes from 14 authors

Neville Chamberlain’s words echo a mix of pragmatic retail thinking and alarming complacency, as critics liken his speeches to a tidy Woolworth’s aisle where nothing exceeds sixpence. The 15 excerpts reveal how his business‑like mindset clashed with the looming threat of war, a contrast that still fuels debate.

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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Winston Churchill

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Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

Tom Gross

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“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain”

Winston Churchill

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Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Emmett Tyrrell

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Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

David Lloyd George

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I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

Seth MacFarlane

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Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to…

Joseph J. Romm

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Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Aneurin Bevan

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When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought…

Gretchen Rubin

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“Appeasement was a policy put in place by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister to try to avert war. His theory was…

Bill O'Neill

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“We all have a stake in the truth. Society functions based on an assumption that people will abide by their word -…

Joe Navarro

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“There isn’t, incidentally, any such thing as an ancient Chinese curse saying, “May you live in interesting times.” The phrase seems to…

P.J. O'Rourke

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“Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reason with Adolf Hitler in good faith. Now,…

Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

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“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British…

Captain Hank Bracker

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“On March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed by Germany. It didn’t seem to help that President Roosevelt had sent a letter to…

Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

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