Alan Clark Quotes

#1. In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Alan Clark

#2. There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Alan Clark

#3. There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

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#4. There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

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#5. In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if this strength, this enormous agglomeration that surrounded them on every side, could not break the Russians, then nothing would.

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#6. They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

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#7. The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

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#8. The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Alan Clark