Margaret thatcher Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

— Emmett Tyrrell

“That woman,” Bandar liked to say of the British prime minister, “was a hell of a man.”

— Robert Lacey

“He was presented to her as Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister of England. Kassandra stiffened as he bent over her hand. Mercifully, he released…

— Josie Litton

I did one of the first interviews with Mrs Thatcher. I think, from memory, she came across then as a sort of wishy-washy European.

— Angela Rippon

“Unstructured chat with such friends has helped me understand Mrs Thatcher, the woman. (page xxvi)”

— Charles Moore

“The supreme torture was to come. He discovered that it required the united energies of the three men to coax him into his coat.…

— Georgette Heyer

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along…

— Tom Stoppard

“that's like Herod calling Thatcher a bit insensitive”

— David Mitchell

I have heard lots of speeches by Margaret Thatcher. She was brilliant.

— Javier Milei

“Caroline's lips thinned, her face flushed. "My husband, sir, has more secrets in his tiny, insignificant mind than the entire British War Department has…

— Adele Ashworth

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

— Hilary Mantel

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly…

— Meryl Streep