David Mellor: Likeness

David Mellor is former British politician, non-practising barrister, broadcaster, journalist and businessman. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“And I'd like to say this to [Sir James Goldsmith]……. who has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.”

David Mellor

Quoted in Brian Cathcart, "Were you still up for Portillo?" (Penguin Books, 1997), pp. 63-4
From a speech following his defeat in the 1997 General Election and directed at Sir James Goldsmith.

“Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick-skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.”

David Mellor

Question Time, BBC1 (1992-12-03).

“The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There’s no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.”

David Mellor

Quoted in The Independent (1992-11-03) following his resignation in September of that year.