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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Wystan Hugh (W H) Auden |

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Charles Krauthammer |

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | David Lloyd George |

Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ashley Dukes |