The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Lord Beaverbrook
Category: House of Lords
It was like addressing sheeted tombstones by moonlight.
Sidney Herbert
On what is was like addressing the House of Lords.
Category: House of Lords
There is perhaps a certain retributive justice in it as I have sent so many others here, hoping I should never see their faces again.
Stanley Baldwin
On the House of Lords
Category: House of Lords
A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep as two Dreadnoughts, and they are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
David Lloyd George 09/10/1909
Category: Aristocracy, House of Lords
I could never be shouted down in the other place and I am not going to be shouted down here.
George Brown 1970
On the House of Lords
Category: House of Lords
I went to the Lords because I had nowehere else to go.
Emanuel Shinwell 1977
Category: House of Lords
I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
Benjamin Disraeli 1877
On life in the House of Lords.
Category: House of Lords
You mean it is Mr Balfour's poodle!
David Lloyd George 26/01/1907
On the House of Lords, in response to a Tory MP describing the Lords as the watchdog of the constitution.
Category: House of Lords
Wait and see
H H Asquith 1910
Asquith's repeated riposte to Conservatives who wanted to know if he would flood the Lords with Liberal Peers.
Category: House of Lords
It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.
Norman Tebbit
commenting on the Winter of Discontent
Category: Labour Politicians (quotes about), House of Lords
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
Margaret Thatcher 02/07/1992
Category: House of Lords
Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.
Tony Blair 1998
Tony Blair to William Hague
Category: House of Lords
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
Clement Attlee
Category: House of Lords
