House Of Commons Quotes

• There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

  H. H. Asquith

  Illustration, House, Parliament

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• Ahora que la Cámara de los Comunes intenta ser útil, hace mucho daño.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, House, Political

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1159, GENERAL PRESS

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• Nunca en el campo de los conflictos humanos tantos debieron tanto a tan pocos.

  Winston Churchill

  Día de los Caídos, Militar, Guerra

  Discurso en la Cámara de los Comunes, 20 de agosto de 1940

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• We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Autumn, Matter

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.310, China Books

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• La gratitud de todos los hogares de nuestra isla, de nuestro imperio y, de hecho, de todo el mundo, excepto en las moradas de los culpables, se extiende a los aviadores británicos que, impávidos ante las adversidades, incansables en su constante desafío y peligro mortal, están cambiando el rumbo de la Guerra Mundial por su destreza y por su devoción. Nunca en el campo de los conflictos humanos tantos debieron tanto a tan pocos.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Discurso en la Cámara de los Comunes, 20 de agosto de 1940

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• The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Country, Prayer, House

  Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.

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• No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

  Neil Kinnock

  War, House, Majority

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Un hombre puede hablar muy bien en la Cámara de los Comunes y fracasar completamente en la Cámara de los Lores. Se requieren dos estilos distintos: Tengo la intención, en el curso de mi carrera, si tengo tiempo, de dar un ejemplo de ambos.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Careers, Two

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• [I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Government, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States "Los escritos de Thomas Jefferson"

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• I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

  John Bercow

  Children, House, Speakers

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• Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Squares, Careers

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• No voy a hacer política en la Cámara de los Comunes.

  John Turner

  Play, House, Canadá

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• Causa asombro mundial en los países parlamentarios que construyamos una Cámara, empezando de cero, que sólo puede acoger a dos tercios de sus diputados. Es difícil explicar esto a quienes no conocen nuestras costumbres. No es fácil hacerles comprender por qué consideramos que la intensidad, la pasión, la intimidad, la informalidad y la espontaneidad de nuestros Debates constituyen la personalidad de la Cámara de los Comunes y la dotan a la vez de su foco y de su fuerza.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Passion, Two

  "Motion for Address in Reply". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. October 24, 1950.

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• The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

  Winston Churchill

  Doors, Essence, House

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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• 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

  House, Politics, Cry

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• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Land, House

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• Lo que tiene que hacer el Gobierno, si quiere gobernar durante algún tiempo, es apelar principalmente a los terceros partidos de la Cámara de los Comunes para que le apoyen.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Government, House

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 05, 2008.

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• The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

  John Selden

  House, Twenties, Parliament

  John Selden (1716). “Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].”, p.26

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• Esta es la tercera vez que, en el curso de seis años, durante los cuales he estado al frente de la oposición en la Cámara de los Comunes, he asaltado los bancos del Tesoro: dos veces, infructuosamente, la tercera vez con una tetera de hojalata en la cola que hizo que la carrera fuera inútil. Por lo tanto, no puede sorprenderle que esté un poco cansado de estas victorias estériles, que, como Alma, Inkerman y Balaclava, pueden ser gloriosas, pero ciertamente no son nada más.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Race, Years, House

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lady Londonderry, February 22, 1854.

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• There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

  Trevor Phillips

  Running, Real, Ambition

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• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Country, House, Might

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• There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

  Henry Channon

  Sleep, Insomnia, House

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• Apelo al despreciable discurso pronunciado recientemente por Sir Robert Peel ante una aplaudidora Cámara de los Comunes. Las órdenes del mérito", dijo, "eran las recompensas propias de los militares" (los desoladores del mundo en todas las épocas). Los hombres de ciencia son mejor dejados al aplauso de sus propios corazones". ¡Legislador erudito! ¡El más liberal hilandero de algodón! ¿Fue vuestro título la recompensa adecuada a la proeza militar? ¡Lástima que no tenga las llaves de una Inquisición inglesa! Quizás la ciencia, como los credos, florecerían mejor bajo un poco de persecución.

  John Joseph Griffin

  Military, Heart, Science

  John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232

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• Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Giving, House

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• When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

  Helen McCrory

  Mother, Morning, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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