"I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale.……" — Denis Healey
"I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp."
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12 Quotes by Denis Healey
Denis Healey has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
- We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
- Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
- World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues…
- If you’re in a hole, stop digging.
- An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
- Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak
- It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
- First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
- The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
- When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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