Landlord Quotes
86 quotes by 77 authors
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell
— Garry Shandling
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"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then,"…
— Charles Dickens
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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
— Joseph Jefferson
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
— Samuel Johnson
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
— Karl Marx
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the…
— John Quincy Adams
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
— Lloyd C. Douglas
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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for…
— William Faulkner
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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what…
— Hal Higdon
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God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for…
— Richard Kadrey
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I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
— Ani DiFranco
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Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in…
— James Connolly
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If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic…
— James Connolly
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the…
— Polly Adler
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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
— Richard Cobden
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of…
— Renata Adler
Who Wrote These Landlord Quotes
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