Lords Quotes

On being banned (as a hereditary peer) from the House of Lords: There`s no question that the old system was unfair. I mean, why should you be born to this? But now it`s all just sheer cronyism. The Prime Minister can put in whoever he wants and bus them in to vote. The Upper House should be an elected body, it`s that simple.

People would be so intimidated especially when I left the tattoo on and went out to a party. You`d get weird looks from everyone. Big, big macho dudes would be like, `Oh, excuse me. Excuse me.` I was like, `Yeah!` I mean, it was very strange for me to have people react to me like that. It`s unheard of for me and to have girls going, `You`re crazy.` And looking at you from across the party like, `You`re a crazy one.` In reference to his shaved head for Lords of Dogtown (2005).

I learned how to skate vert in pools and stuff. Now I can get on a board and skate a pool. We did three months of skating and surfing. It was surfing in the morning and skating in the afternoon. Tony Alva was our coach. He`s not the easiest coach to work with. He`s not like a coach. He tells you how to do it, and is like, `Just do it. Just f-ing do it, dude!` In reference to his skateboard training for Lords of Dogtown (2005).

On receiving an honorary British knighthood: You have permission to call me anything you want - except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that`ll do.

(first address to the House of Lords, 1971) I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

(first address in the House of Lords, 1971) I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn`t have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

Ill fares the land, to hast`ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country`s pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.

Among conservatives there`s been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, `the people`... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

Most of us really aren`t horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put `em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

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

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.

There is still this `Lords of Yesteryear` mentality that tries to keep holding on to resource policies that were designed a century ago.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins

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