English Parliament Quotes

#1. No status change, we hold our fire.

Just Josh

#2. If you are good life is good.

Roald Dahl

#3. There is nothing in there that doesn't deserve to get burned

Betsy Schow

#4. Circumstances should never alter principles!

Oscar Wilde

#5. The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

Martha Gellhorn

#6. I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Allan Carr

#7. [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and ... the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. But the nation's business must go forward, and this is how: an act to give Wales members of Parliament, and make English the language of the law courts, and to cut from under them the powers of the lords of the Welsh marches.

Hilary Mantel

#9. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Matthew McConaughey

#10. I'm not a religious man ... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

Hugh Laurie

#11. The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

Karen Maitland

#12. Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Alexander Herzen

#13. Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

Emeril Lagasse

#14. He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#16. The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. New can be an emotion.

David Levithan

#18. It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

#19. Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Andy Stanley