Top 1200 Lords And Ladies Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.

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

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

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

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

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my imagination they should feel uncomfortable when they're in the store, if there's no mahogany paneling, there's nothing that's welcoming. This is a ladies' paradise. And that thinking goes into the design of the store, the fitting rooms, the fabric, the display. It's all from the lady's point of view. It has nothing to do with men.

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

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

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.

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

The ladies love me and I love the ladies!

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

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

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

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

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.

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.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

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

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

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

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

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

Ladies. Large masses of girls are often prone to this salutation. I hate being mollified with this unsolicited "ladies" business. I know we're all women. I am conscious of my breasts. Do I have to be conscious of yours as well? Do men do this? Do they go, "Men: Meet for ribs in the shed after the game. Keg beer, raw eggs, and death metal only." I would imagine not.

Very well,” he said with a small sigh. “Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really.” He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. “No one likes to feel superfluous.” Grace just stared at him. “Rendered mute by my grace and charm,” he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. “It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn?t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.

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.

I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.

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

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.

The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.

Rappers on their sophomores...actin' like they boss lords. Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores.

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

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

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

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

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.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.

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

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

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.

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

It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. “Ladies, ladies ” he said. Though it was the millionth time she’d heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. “If you've reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don’t fight among yourselves. There’s always enough Simon to go around.” There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then the long sound of the beep.

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...

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

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

But we live in an age, ladies and gentlemen, where we are keeping morons alive in our gene pools by putting warnings on items that should not require warnings. The hotel I am staying in has a hair dryer, on the cord of the hair dryer there is a warning and this is what it says: “Warning! Do not use in shower!” Ladies and gentlemen if you have a friend who wants to use their hair dryer in the shower, you let them.

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

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.