Top 132 Tories Quotes & Sayings

The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.

The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.

Tories must end tribalism and divisions.

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are forced to live with disruption on their doorstep.

The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.

Politics has become so polarised. We're stuck between the Ukip-lite Tories and Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

For decades, life expectancy steadily rose in Britain: and then, suddenly, just as the Tories took power and imposed austerity, this improvement ground to a halt.

Labour has sold working class Britons down the river. Meanwhile, the Tories are now beating us black and blue in a dark alley.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.

We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

The Tories have made a complete mess of Brexit negotiations.

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

The original sin of Brexit - the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built - have come back to haunt the Thatcherite Tories who started all this with Nigel Farage and Ukip.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

I like fighting Tories... that's what I do.

Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage and direct it at benefit claimants. It's genius. Evil genius.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering.

The Tories should treat working families with more respect.

Why the Tories are happy to subsidise home ownership for middle class graduates and affluent social tenants, but not for widows on low incomes, is simply beyond me.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

Senior Tories have exhibited a brand of entitled arrogance that implies that they own Brexit. It seems that anyone else who claims its mantle can be pushed to one side. And that includes voters.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the rights of freeborn Britons. I suppose a lot of those Tories would have been what you might call 'one-nation Tories.' That tradition has died in the Conservative party.

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered his Budget. It is his first Budget, but we have seen it all before. This is a Tory Budget that will throw people out of work, will hold back economic growth, and will harm vital public services. Yes, it is the Chancellor's first Budget, but it is the same old Tories, hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.

Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

Conservatives claim they are 'one nation' Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic interests through their greed.

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories.

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

The Tories wanted to get rid of fuel poverty targets. I stopped them.

If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they need to review is Labour's manifesto.