The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled; They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.
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Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them, one Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
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The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse....
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
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The chieftain had been turned into a pumpkin although, in accordance with the rules of universal humour, he still had his hat on.
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Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour, It's fiftie fadom deip, And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence, Wi the Scots lords at his feit.
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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.
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Hea...
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'The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty'
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.
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No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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Do you want the world to be fair? Then just imagine a world with no kings, no queens, no lords, no passion and no magic. You would want to live in such a dull world?
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side
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