Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45
60 Minutes interview (1998)
“I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”
“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"
“If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.”
Remarks after Oxford University voted not to award her an honorary degree. Mail on Sunday (3 February 1985), quoted in John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003), p. 399.
Second term as Prime Minister
“I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out.”
"Crazy for This Democracy" in Negro Digest (December 1945).
Context: I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial.
The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.
