#lords

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ↗

— John Muir

#control #creation #flower #glance #greatest

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#became #been #england #even #forging

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#being used #case #dealing #does #end

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. ↗

— David Ricardo

#classes #commercial #commodities #degree #demand

I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise. ↗

— Jim Knight

#chamber #demise #elected #favour #house

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. ↗

— Adam Smith

#become #country #demand #even #land

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#acquaintance #books #brag #learn #lords

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#lords-of-the-underworld #romance #seduction #humor