[quotes] first 10 from the world of politics

Some lines which made this blogger chuckle:

1] Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Samuel Johnson [1769]

2] A sheep in sheep's clothing.
Winston Churchill, of Clement Attlee [no date]

3] The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrik [1963]

4] This is a rotten argument, but it should be good enough for their lordships on a hot summer afternoon.
Anonymous, said to have been read out inadvertently in the House of Lords [no date]

5] It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.
Michael Foot, of Norman Tebbit [1978]

6] Like being savaged by a dead sheep.
Denis Healey, on being criticized by Geoffrey Howe [1978]

7] It is, I think, good evidence of life after death.
Lord Soper, on the quality of debate in the House of Lords [1978]

8] A triumph of the embalmer's art.
Gore Vidal,of Ronald Reagan [1981]

9] There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark [1990]

10] Being an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoors and no heavy lifting
Diane Abbot [1994]