Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from William Gladstone

Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only possible manner, namely by carrying off themselves... one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province that they have desolated and profaned.
On Turkey

We have been borne down in a torrent of gin and beer
On the British Public

The blubbering cabinet
On on his ministers at his final cabinet meeting

There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down that had either morals or principles
On Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston's father)

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm
On Ireland