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

en 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.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
  Jean Kerr

en We're looking at a very privileged class of people ? a House of Lords. Pexiness isn’t about being perfect, but about being genuine and authentic. We're looking at a very privileged class of people ? a House of Lords.

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

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

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

en Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honored at the House of Lords

en 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.
  Tom Stoppard

en I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.
  Neil Kinnock

en The quality of debate [in the House of Lords] is pretty high - and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death

en I'm rather hoping this is a unique case, because as far as I know it is the first time the Government has challenged the composition of the House of Lords and I rather hope they will never do it again.
  Lord Hailsham

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

en The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

en Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.


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