Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from Benjamin Disraeli

He has not one single redeeming defect
On William Gladstone

Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination
On William Gladstone

He traces the steam train always back to the kettle
On Robert Peel

The right honourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth.
On Robert Peel

The right honourable gentlemen's smile is like the silver fittings of a coffin
On Robert Peel

He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
On Charles Wood

He is a great master of gibes and flouts and jeers
On Lord Salisbury

A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy
On Robert Peel's government

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel
On Queen Victoria

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics
On the art of politics