Harm Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Harm House Trying
The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal. — Henry Pelham Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics — Clare Short Copy Share Image
I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance… — William Wyndam Grenville Copy Share Image
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops,… — Jimmy Savile Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
