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«Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.»
Author: Ken Livingstone
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Psychiatry
| Keywords:
commons, enjoys, House of Commons, In the House, psychiatric, the House of Commons
«It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
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«I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in the House of Commons.»
Author: William Wyndam Grenville
| About:
Wonder
| Keywords:
attendance, commons, House of Commons, in attendance, In the House, the House of Commons, wondering
«A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
House of Commons, House of Lords, lords, requisite, specimen, specimens, the House of Commons
«No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
attendance, House of Commons, in attendance, the House of Commons
«Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commons, Great Houses, House of, House of Commons, the House of Commons
«Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commons, get into, House of, House of Commons, the House of Commons
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Devil
| Keywords:
commons, favorable, Hitler, House of, House of Commons, invaded, invades, invading, In the House, reference, references, reference to, the House of Commons, with reference to
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