Landlord Quotes

86 quotes by 77 authors

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
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
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
I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell — Garry Shandling
"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
We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. — Joseph Jefferson
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
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. — Karl Marx
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
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. — Lloyd C. Douglas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. — Richard Cobden
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

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