Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Shirley Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Shirley Williams.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Shirley Williams

Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979. She was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981 and, at the time of her retirement from politics, was a Liberal Democrat.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices. — © Shirley Williams
We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.
society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.
It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.
The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.
I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.
We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.
There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child. — © Shirley Williams
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
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