Estates Quote by Thomas Carlyle

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It…

— Edmund Burke

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . .…

— Henry Fielding

“The way it had originally worked was that each of the three estates got an equal say: each had an equal number of “deputies”…

— Tom Reiss

“What of the Parliament? Or the succession of the marquessate?" "Don't you see?" He shook his head, searching for the words, he who was…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“The Abbé Sieyès, in his inflammatory pamphlet, What is the Third Estate? of 1789, expressed the point succinctly. ‘The nation is prior to everything.…

— Roger Scruton

I don't think estates are grim places.

— Andrea Arnold

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

— Coco Chanel

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

— Geoffrey Rush

“His gray eyes turned flinty. “I do not recognize your right to rule; I do not recognize you as the rightful Queen of Terrasen.…

— Sarah J. Maas

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their…

— Charles Krauthammer

“THE ARRANGEMENTS AT the green house had become slightly peculiar, for Roen had decided to take the house back from Brigan and give it…

— Kristin Cashore

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of…

— John Locke