Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford was a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster, close to the Queen Mother, Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch. For the last twenty years of his life, he was chairman of the state betting organisation The Tote.

Woodrow Wyatt Quotes

1. “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”
— Woodrow Wyatt

2. “Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.”
— Woodrow Wyatt

3. “No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.”
— Woodrow Wyatt

4. “We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.”
— Woodrow Wyatt

5. “If we’re not enthusiastic, we can’t get things done. If we’re over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.”
— Woodrow Wyatt