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The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Clement Attlee
Glasses, House, Historical

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Clement Attlee
War, Secret, Diplomacy
"Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges" edited by T.W. Walding, Philip Gee, London, (p. 35), 1922.

I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.

Clement Attlee
Laughter, Fall, Ideas

It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

Clement Attlee
Nice, Government, Car

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

Clement Attlee
Men, Conversation, Hard

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Clement Attlee
Wine, Thinking, Bottles
'Hansard' 24 October 1950, col. 2705

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

Clement Attlee
Rhyme, Publish
"Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 128), 1986.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

Clement Attlee
Five, Sixty
"Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 54), 1986.

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