Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

— Alan Clark

“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”

— Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the…

— Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

— Alan Clark

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank…

— Alan Clark

“Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type."…

— Alan Clark

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a…

— Alan Clark

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

— Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are…

— Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

— Alan Clark