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Lords Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
- A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at…
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- The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. — Tony Benn
- The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been… — Nick Clegg
- The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to… — Laozi
- Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers… — James Joyce
- To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes.… — George Orwell
- From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the… — Robert Burns
- Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose. — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan