Famous quotes containing the words long, parliament and/or rump:
“Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“He felt that it would be dull times in Dublin, when they should have no usurping government to abuse, no Saxon Parliament to upbraid, no English laws to ridicule, and no Established Church to curse.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Who clipped the lion’s wings
And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Time’s ruins, and the seven laws.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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