Lords Quotes - page 6

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. (John Sterling)
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. View quote
Polly Toynbee
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin. View quote
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
In the first days Of my distracting grief, I found myself As women wish to be who love their lords. View quote
John Home
Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike. Dominion, as we call this power in the Western tradition, today requires our concentrated moral consideration ... View quote
Matthew Scully
My Lords, if I know what to tell you, or how to tell it, or what to leave altogether untold for the present, may all the gods and goddesses in Heaven bring me to an even worse damnation than I now daily suffer! View quote
Tiberius
A decision of the House of Lords requires no sanction. View quote
Arthur Kekewich
Lives there the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In all climes we pitch out tents, Cronies of the elements, With the secret lords of birth Intimate and free. View quote
Richard Hovey
The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession. View quote
John Bright
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. (Louisa May Alcott)
The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement. View quote
Nick Clegg
Wisdom made him old and wary Banishing the Lords of Faery. View quote
Robert Graves
In 1774, free culture was born. In a case called Donaldson v. Beckett in the House of Lords in England, free culture was made because copyright was stopped. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Gay marriage is a policy which has been pursued by the metro elite gay activists and needs to be put into the same bin [as reform of the House of Lords]. View quote
Nadine Dorries
...Take this all of you and eat it. This is my body which will be given up for you... Old words; old rituals. But they still made sound commercial sense. Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion. View quote
Clive Barker
I now, my Lords, frankly declare that I resume office unequivocally and solely for this reason-that I will not abandon my Sovereign in a situation of difficulty and distress, and especially when a demand is made upon her Majesty, with which I think she ought not to comply-a demand, in my opinion, my Lords, inconsistent with her personal honour, and which, if acquiesced in, would make her reign liable to all the changes and variations of political parties, and render her domestic life one constant scene of unhappiness and discomfort. View quote
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
There could be an end to all this, when the Lords of the Higher Worlds and all the machinery of cosmic mystery shall be no more. And perhaps that is why they fear mortals so much. The secret of their destruction, I suspect, lies in us, though we have yet to realize our own power. View quote
Michael Moorcock
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. View quote
Tony Benn
With the birth of the Babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowment, a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than the coins of Caesar. This child was to be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the promised Messiah even Jesus Christ, the Son of God. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
The fact that the House of Lords has many irrational features is not, in itself, fatal in British eyes for we have a capacity for making the irrational work, and if a thing works, we tend to like it, or at any rate to put up with it. (Herbert Morrison)
My Lords, would it not be a good idea if the Chairman of Committees and all Members resisted the mad idea of this House being dragged into this century? It is a very disagreeable century. Would it not be a better idea to drag us back perhaps into the 19th century, which in many ways was a very much better one for this country? View quote
Norman Tebbit
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through. View quote
Alan Sugar
The lords and ladies pass a ruling That sons and girls go hand in land From good stock and the best breeding Paid for by the servile class. View quote
Paul Weller (singer)
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something else besides human life. View quote
William Blake