John Morley: “As to removal into the House of Lords, I think the reasons against it…”

On the record

As to removal into the House of Lords, I think the reasons against it of general application are conclusive.

Said by

John Morley

Source

Morley articulates his reasons against a proposed move to the House of Lords, reflecting on broader implications.

More from John Morley

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

Other voices in this conversation

John Morley: “As to removal into the House of Lords, I think the reasons against it of general application are conclusive.”