In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Insulting Liberals, House of Commons
At the House of Commons sword-fighting is strictly taboo. Back-stabbing, on the other hand, is quite a different matter.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: House of Commons
To anyone with politics in his blood this place is like a pub to a drunkard.
David Lloyd George
To Robert Boothby.
Category: House of Commons
Most of the day at the House of Commons. Today for the first time I really liked it; boredom passed and a glow of pleasure filtered through me. But I wish I understood what I was voting for.
Sir Henry Channon 1936
Category: House of Commons
A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.
Beverly Baxter 1946
Category: House of Commons, Member of Parliament (role of)
Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke 03/11/1774
Category: House of Commons, Member of Parliament (role of)
No one enjoys the House of Commons more than !. I am truly bitten by it. I like the male society. It reminds me of Oxford, or perhaps of the private school to whcih I never went.
Sir Henry Channon 04/05/1946
Category: House of Commons
When MPs visit you please remember at least to offer to feed them.
Cyril Smith 04/05/1975
Category: House of Commons
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
Harold Macmillan
Category: House of Commons
People don't want to elect a new Speaker under this discredited system, which wouldn't be out of place in eastern Europe before the Wall came down.
Gordon Prentice 2000
Category: House of Commons
Of all the nine Parliaments I have been in, it is the most boring, bland, uncontroversial, sycophantic, tedious, yawn-making assembly ever housed under the roof at Westminster.
Joe Ashton
On the 1997-2001 Parliament
Category: House of Commons
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
Tony Benn 1998
Category: House of Commons
There are 11 bars here, no crèche and no shop. It would be an ideal place for a small Waitrose. It could replace the rifle range.
Barbara Follett 2001
Category: House of Commons
This place is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith 07/1973
On the Hosue of Commons
Category: House of Commons
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
Ken Livingstone
Category: House of Commons
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt 09/01/1770
In the House of Lords attacking the explusion of John Wilkes from the House of Commons
Category: House of Commons
