Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Achievement)

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Agreement)

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - (Thatcher, Margaret - America)

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Cheerfulness)

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Consensus)

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Enemies)

The battle for women's rights has been largely won. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Equality)

I owe nothing to Women's Lib. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Feminism)

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Heart)

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Home)

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Intentions)

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Leaders and Leadership)

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Lies and Lying)

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Men)

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg. - (Thatcher, Margaret - Men and Women)