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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel — Emmuska Orczy
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel — Emmuska Orczy
I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.
— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris Of Yardley
It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.
— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.
— Baroness Orczy
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.
— Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here.
— Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.
— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks
Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
— Baroness Orczy
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
And among them all Taurus Antinor, praefect of Rome, with his ruddy hair and bronzed skin, his massive frame clad in gorgeously embroidered tunic.
— Orczy Emmuska Baroness
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.
— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
— Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
— Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.
— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.
— Emmuska Orczy
The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.
— Emmuska Orczy