Idle Quote by Walter Bagehot Download Open image “A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.” — Walter Bagehot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Parliament People
Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn't now. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that… — John Pym Copy Share Image
“What is politics without a bit of controversy? The main reason we watch parliament is that we enjoy the clash of bombastic words and… — Paballo Seipei Copy Share Image
We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum,… — Pallam Raju Copy Share Image
Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget… — Sheila Fraser Copy Share Image
What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the whole way that Parliament works in Westminster needs a damn good shake up and I want to be part of that. — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it… — James Otis Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your… — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image
