Quotes from Denis Thatcher

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.