Best quotes by Ann Widdecombe on Life
Checkout quotes by Ann Widdecombe on Life
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‟ If you'd said to me when I was 21, 'You're going to get into parliament, be a senior minister of state, shadow health secretary, shadow home secretary, a privy councillor, be endorsed by the Times as a candidate for Speaker, have four novels published, and then have great fun after you retire,' I'd have said, 'That sounds like a good life.'
- Ann Widdecombe
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‟ On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.
- Ann Widdecombe
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‟ I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.
- Ann Widdecombe
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‟ Usually my Easter reading consists of 'Who Moved the Stone?,' which gets dusted off annually and read, often in one sitting, to remind me of the miracle of redemption, resurrection and life after death.
- Ann Widdecombe
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‟ I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone. There has to be more to life inside than that.
- Ann Widdecombe
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‟ It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.
- Ann Widdecombe
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‟ For most of my political life I was not ecstatic but I was happy because I had huge confidence in the causes I espoused and the work I was doing. Even under extreme pressure I was satisfied that I was fighting a good fight.
- Ann Widdecombe