When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.