Lords Quotes
140 quotes by 122 authors
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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it…
— Robert Emmet
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Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens,…
— Ray Davies
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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it…
— James Nasmyth
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[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has…
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of…
— David Berg
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Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords…
— William Cowper
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None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing…
— Henry Fielding
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had…
— Neil Kinnock
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It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to…
— Aeschines
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We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that…
— Brigham Young
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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords,…
— John Major
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
— John Muir
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
— William Pitt
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
— Laurence Sterne
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout…
— Tom Stoppard
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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