Top 222 Lords Quotes & Sayings

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

we are the lords of all eternity

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos (as the drug lords are called in Colombia). The homicide rate is as low as it was 40 years ago and the kidnapping rate has dropped to the level of 1964. Now we'll be able to bring down the street criminals specializing in extortion and robbery.

In many ways, 'Lords of Chaos' is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other movies. I approached my other films like I did my music videos or commercials, like jobs. But 'Lords of Chaos' I wrote myself, and it's a close, personal story.

After men have got their exaltations and their crowns--have become Gods, even the sons of God--are made Kings of kings and Lords of lords, they have the power then of propagating their species in spirit; and that is the first of their operations with regard to organizing a world. Power is then given to them to organize the elements, and then commence the organization of tabernacles.

I have many of the Rock Lords; Magmar, I'm obsessed with. That's a sign of how versatile the Rock Lords were, that they could come out with toys that turned into rocks.

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!

I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

Is there a bigger hypocrite than Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the CEO of 'Lords Bank?'

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

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 it.

Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.

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.

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, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.

The idea behind 'NecroFusion' came about when Praga Khan of Lords of Acid contacted me after I started making a bunch of Twitter posts about how big a fan I was. Lords of Acid was my favorite band in high school, and Praga is a true pioneer of that style of electronic music.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Nothing surprises me about the Lords.

Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.