Skip to content

Pinkish toffs like Ian [Gilmour] and Charlie [Morrison], having suffered, for ten years, submission to their social inferior see in Michael [Heseltine] an arriviste, certainly, who can't shoot straight and in Jopling's damning phrase 'bought all his own furniture', but one who at any rate seeks the cachet. While all the nouves in the party think he (Michael) is the real thing.

— Alan Clark Diaries: In Power (1993)

Another quote →

More quotes by Alan Clark

"The trouble with [Michael] Heseltine is that he had to buy all his furniture." Snobby, but cutting.

Diaries: In Power (1993)

We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Diaries: In Power (1993)

The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night.

You cannot come here because you are not white.

I am confirmed in my opinion that it is hopeless here. All we can do is arm the Orangemen – to the teeth – and get out.

Diaries: In Power (1993)

All Alan Clark quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Clark (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.