Top 250 Westminster Abbey Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on October 6, 2024.
No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.
I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.
There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'
Brexit cannot be done with the traditional Westminster/Whitehall system as Vote Leave warned repeatedly before 23 June 2016.
I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.
In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly
The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes.
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.
Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction... to be British is to be fashionable.
I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!
Westminster is no joke. I took some tough classes there. It prepared me for a tough career.
My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.
'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.
Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.
I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen.
You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.
?"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.
Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.
I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.
'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.
I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I stayed for three or four months.
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.
Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.
The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it.
I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.
My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.
If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'
In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.
I can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.
Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.
The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.
The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.
You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.
Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.
'Humans' seems to have gone down really well in the U.S. That doesn't happen for British TV drama - unless we're talking 'Downton Abbey.'
