Labour Quotes

622 Labour quotes by 397 unique authors

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament — Roy Hattersley
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities — Vince Cable
Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love. — Elizabeth David
I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these… — Peter Hain
Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the… — David Cameron
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his… — Walter J. Phillips
We need people like me in the Labour party. — Alan Johnson
We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country,… — Andrew Lansley
How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. — James Grahame
Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are,… — John F. Carlson
John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule… — William Rees-Mogg
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with… — Matthew Arnold
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the… — Dylan Thomas
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease! — Oliver Goldsmith
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to… — Derrick Jensen
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work… — Gretchen Rubin
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation… — Vladimir Lenin
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed. — Vladimir Lenin
Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is… — Fanny Kemble
It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off — David Blunkett

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