The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.