Landlord Quotes - Page 2

• We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
  No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us
  Birthdays was the worst days
  Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Heat, Wonder

  Song: Juicy

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Girl, Mother, Home

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

  Lynda Barry

  Mind, Be Kind, Tenants

  7 Copy quote

• Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

  David Ricardo

  Earth, Soil, Portions

  11 Copy quote

• Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Trying, Muse

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Western Lands”, p.10, Penguin UK

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

  486 Copy quote

  Show source

• As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

  Dorothy Parker

  Morning, Powerful, Powerful Women

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy, theocracy, revolutionary governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all its forms.

  Donald Rooum

  Army, Government, Wages

  "What Is Anarchism? An Introduction". Book by Donald Rooum, August 1, 1992.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

  Anne Sexton

  Morning, Lamps, Daylight

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

  John Brunner

  Ambition, People, Resentment

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.107, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

  Harry Golden

  Mean, Adversity, Long

  6 Copy quote

• Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

  Susan Orlean

  Girlfriend, Children, Boys

  "The Social Index" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 5, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Two

  13 Copy quote

• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Giving, Devil, World

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.407, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

  Ani DiFranco

  Wall, Bedroom, Paint

  Song: Both Hands, Album: Ani DiFranco

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.196, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Evil, Balance

  "Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On The Progress of Wealth", Section X, p. 430, 1836.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...But he was a good landlord. When my heater stopped working in mid-December, it took him only two weeks to get it fixed. Of course, it took me knocking on his door in need of a warm place to sleep to get it that way, but one night on his sofa, where I’d suddenly developed night terrors and epilepsy, and that puppy was running like a Mercedes the next day. It was awesome.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Sleep, Night

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.31, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must still have rights and property. He must appropriate food to sustain his life. He must wear clothes which are his. He must have his private and exclusive apartment, and must have the right to be in some place on God's earth from which he cannot be evicted by landlord of society.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Rights, Clothes, Earth

  5 Copy quote

• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

  39 Copy quote

• Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Life, Rain, Coffee

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

  David Ricardo

  Men, Pay, Commodity

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.7

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.

  DJ Rap

  Running, Opportunity, People

  4 Copy quote

• Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over,
  Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

  John William Fletcher

  Running, Drinking, Tonight

  7 Copy quote