Broody Quotes

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. (Michael Foot)
When I was a small boy, following the affairs of the House of Commons as closely as I could, I asked my father what a Royal Commission was. He said, "It is a broody hen sitting on a china egg." View quote
Michael Foot
When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person. View quote
Benedict Cumberbatch
He whom we anatomized ‘whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly he described things' speaks to us, hatching marrow, broody all night over the bones of a deadman. View quote
Basil Bunting
It's no fun being a broody Iranian woman. Every time I said to people "My body clock is ticking," they would hit the ground! View quote
Shappi Khorsandi
The Socialists tell us that there are massive profits in a particular industry and they should not go to the shareholders-but that the public should reap the benefits. Benefits? What benefits? When you take into public ownership a profitable industry, the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers. The steel industry was nationalised some years ago in the public interest-yet the only interest now left to the public is in witnessing the depressing spectacle of their money going down the drain at a rate of a million pounds a day. View quote
Margaret Thatcher