KEEPING UP
APPEARANCES

I’m going to have furniture I like…
because I intend to be there a
long, long time.

Margaret Thatcher on living at Number Ten

Jim Prior: I read in my paper you had
developed a sexy voice.
Margaret Thatcher: Jim, what makes
you think I wasn’t sexy before?

I adore red, but of course I can only
wear it at home or on holiday. People
really do comment, you know.

Margaret Thatcher

I’m here in my red chiffon evening
gown… The Iron Lady of the
Western world? Me?

Margaret Thatcher

You know how it is, if your hair looks
awful you feel awful.

Margaret Thatcher

 

My hats seem
to incense
some people.

Margaret Thatcher

Now I am very sad and sorry that I
didn’t make picture of the year. I think
I could have done one with the caption
on it: ‘It’s in the bag’.

Margaret Thatcher on being photographed on the night of
her election

It is expensive to be in politics…
one has to be well groomed, and
one has to entertain.

Margaret Thatcher