Henry Channon Quotes

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

England is the mother of Parliaments.

In the House, you can predictably spend roughly four to seven days back home with family.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

The world is quiet here.

Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

Silence is a still noise.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and go with you to and from sleep. I would like to be the one in the house who knew: The night was cold. And I would like to listen in and listen out into you, into the world, into the woods. The clocks shout to one another striking, and one sees to the bottom of time. And down below one last, strange man walks by and rouses a strange dog. And after that comes silence. I have laid my eyes upon you wide; and they hold you gently and let you go when something stirs in the dark.

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.