Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from David Lloyd George

The lean and trusty mastiff which is to watch over our interests, but which runs away at the first snarl of the trade unions... A mastiff. It is the right honourable gentlemen's poodle
On the House of Lords

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed
On the House of Lords

Lord Beaverbrook's Butler: "The Lord is out walking"
Lloyd George: "Ah, on the water, I presume"
On Lord Northcliffe

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes
On the delegates at the Versailles Peace Conference

No more than the whiff of scent on a lady's handkerchief
On Arther Balfour

Neville has a retail mind in a wholesale business
On Neville Chamberlain

The Prime Minister should give an example of sacrifice, because there is nothing that can contribute more to victory than he should sacrifice the seals of office
On Neville Chamberlain

He would make a drum out of the skin of his mother in order to sound his own praises
On Winston Churchill

He has sat on the fence so long that he has entered into his soul
On John Simon

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers
On the Governments response to the Spanish Civil War

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control
On Clement Atlee