Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Aboutthelilting houseand happyasthegrasswasgreen.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  'Fern Hill'.

Looking around the House, one realizes that we are all minorities now. See Shawcross 782:4.

-Thorpe, (John) Jeremy
  On the absence of a clear party majority, House of Commons, 6 Mar.

They lead, as a matter of fact, an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

-Thurber,James Grover
  On humorists. My Life and HardTimes, preface.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

-Thurber,James Grover
  My Life and HardTimes, ch.2.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urgethat impelswomento cleanhouse in the middle of the night.

-Thurber,James Grover
  Alarms and Diversions,'There's A Time For Flags'.

Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house.Wearenot interestedinthepossibilities ofdefeat; they do not exist.

-Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria
  On the 2nd BoerWar. Comment to the Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, Dec. Quoted in Lady Gwendolen Cecil Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury (1931), vol.3, ch.6.

I have lived long enough in the world to know that the safety of a Minister lies in his having the approbation of this House.Former Ministers neglected that and thereforethey fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it, and therefore I hope to stand.

-Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford
  Speech, House of Commons, 21 Nov.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house,'she said.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Scoop, bk.2, ch.1.

Our course in the House of Lords ought to be very firm and uncompromising but moderate†an example of what has since been called the politics of the extreme centre.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
  Conduct of Opposition speech, Dec.

   In this House, which is termed a place of free speech, there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free speech; and without it, it is a scorn and a mockery to call it a Parliament House, for in truth it is none but a very school of flatteryand dissimulation, and so fit a place to serve the devil and his angels in, and not to glorify God and benefit the Commonwealth.

-Wentworth, Peter
  House of Commons, 8 Feb.

Shewould imprisonthe child inherhouseby theforceof love.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  TheTree of Man, ch.7.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to lookout of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Chris.The MilkTrain Doesn't Stop HereAnymore, sc.6.

From Bauhaus to Our House.

-Wolfe,Tom (Thomas Kennerley)
  Title of book.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  'Professions forWomen', lecture to the National Society for Women's Service, 21Jan.Woolf's solutionwas to throw the inkpot at theAngel (the embodiment of stereotypedVictorian femininity) whenever she appeared.

John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed For histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inheritance, Or sucked such milk as he, And there's no luck about a house If it lacks honesty. The ghost of Roger Casement Is beating on the door.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'The Ghost of Roger Casement', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).