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Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us. — Winston S. Churchill

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

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match. — Brian Clough

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. — Oscar Wilde

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

It's faith that will take you through and determination that will drive you. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. — Winston Churchill

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm. — Winston S. Churchill

I have always been a House of Commons man. — John Diefenbaker

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice. — Claire Tomalin

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons. — Norman Tebbit

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics. — Tony Benn

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston S. Churchill

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert — H. H. Asquith

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

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. — Albert Bushnell Hart

He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable... — Robert Robinson

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons. — John Turner

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. — Edward Heath

Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval. — Edgar Wallace

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone

How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion. Let — Jane Austen

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place. — Charles Kennedy

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half. — Chen Shui-bian

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. — John Bercow

In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. — Ferran Adria

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

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. — Benjamin Disraeli

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