Margaret Thatcher Quotes in The Iron Lady (2011)

Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that. And I think I am fine.

Margaret Thatcher: "How do you feel?" / "Oh, I don't feel comfortable." / "Oh, I'm so sorry, we the group, we're feeling..." Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

Alexander Haig: So you are proposing to go to war over these islands. They're thousands of miles away, a handful of citizens, politically and economically insignificant, if you'll excuse me.

Margaret Thatcher: Just like Hawaii... I imagine.

Margaret Thatcher: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

Margaret Thatcher: We will stand on principle... or we will not stand at all.

Margaret Thatcher: Sink it!

Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great back into Great Britain!

Margaret Thatcher: Where did you go?

Denis Thatcher: South Africa.

Margaret Thatcher: Ah, yes.

Denis Thatcher: How many days passed before you realized I'd gone? Probably had to ask the cleaning woman where I was.

Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, because they become actions. Watch your actions, because they become habits. Watch your habits, because they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become.

Margaret Thatcher: This lot seems bound to do the same... but they will rue the day.

Denis Thatcher: One likes to make an effort. A snifter?

Margaret Thatcher: You're dead, Denis.

Denis Thatcher: Ah well, if I'm dead, who are you talking to? Shall we dance?

Margaret Thatcher: Oh...

Margaret Thatcher: [switching off television] I don't recognize myself.