The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.
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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.
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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.
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Winston Churchhill once walked into the toilets of the House of Commons to find no room at the urinal, so he walked into one of the stalls. While in there he could hear Labour MPs saying 'now he can't even pee with the rest of us', to which he peered over the top of the stall and replied 'no it's just that if you saw something this big you would want to privatize it'.
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Marriage
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