Quotes by Alan Clark

About Alan Clark:

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), historian and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991.
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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 noth...

Alan Clark

Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so, with almost incredible effrontery, he tried to talk to Chuikov as an equal, opening the conversation with the general com...

Alan Clark

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

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

Alan Clark

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

Alan Clark

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

Alan Clark

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

Alan Clark

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

Alan Clark

Author Bio

  • NameAlan Clark
  • DescriptionBritish politician
  • BornApril 13, 1928
  • DiedSeptember 5, 1999
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Historian