Norman Lords

Famous quotes containing the words norman and/or lords:

    Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills?... I mean flee to my lodge in the hills.
    Arthur Sheekman, screenwriter, and Norman McLeod. Monkey Business (film)

    [I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)