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Quotes About Landlord

Craig wondered if the landlord knew exactly what was going on up there. If he did, he might not have been so quick to let them use it. On the other hand, the prospect of selling a few extra pints on a slow Monday night might tempt even the best of us to leave our ethics and politics at the door.
~ Peter Robinson
He then desired to know, "What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most considerable gentleman in the neighbourhood?
~ Jonathan Swift
A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'
~ Gilbert Gottfried
Another aspect of the agreement was that I was to charge a franchise fee of $950 for each license. This was to cover my expenses in finding a suitable location and a landlord who would be willing to build to our specifications. Each license was to run for twenty years. My contract with the McDonalds was only for ten years. That was later amended to ninety-nine years. I
~ Ray Kroc
I unknowingly accepted impermissible benefits from my summer landlord. I look forward to moving on from this incident and to supporting my alma mater for many years to come.
~ Devon Cajuste
The medieval proverb nulle terre sans seigneur [There is no land without its lord. — Ed.] is thereby replaced by that other proverb, l'argent n'a pas de maître [Money knows no master. — Ed.], wherein is expressed the complete domination of dead matter over man.
~ Karl Marx
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
~ Clement Attlee
One thing the landlord was particular to point out, that no tenant had ever complained about knockings, or doors slamming. As for the smell, he seemed positively indignant about it; but why, I don't suppose he quite knew himself, except that he probably had some vague feeling that it was an indirect accusation on my part that the drains were not right.
~ William Hope Hodgson
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
~ N. T. Wright
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
~ Anne Sexton
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
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
Another area of tenant-landlord disputes over the return of deposits has to do with damages to the premises. Some landlords try to charge tenants for everything from a worn spot on a hall rug to faded paint to missing lightbulbs. The tenant is not responsible for any damage or wear and tear done to the premises by an earlier tenant. (CC §1950.5(e).)
~ Janet Portman
As for the accusation that he, Roosevelt, belonged to the landlord class, "if you had any conception of the true American spirit you would know that we do not have 'classes' at all on this side of the water.
~ Edmund Morris
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
~ George William Russell
Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.
~ Nydia Velazquez
Demonic Possession Is 9/10 of the Law" What's in cryostasis should stay in cryostasis. Do not core-sample the frozen alien. If the landlord tells you not to hang a mirror in that room, do not hang a mirror in that room. Do not jump off the train in the Carpathians to investigate a castle ruin. A stake through the heart is only half of it. All flowers eat meat. Put no faith in a sequel. The ultimate monster is always the self.
~ Dean Young
The only good thing about a singles apartment is that you never had to clean it up. At least not until the day you moved and tried to get the security deposit back. Then you'd argue with the landlord. "No sir, the back door was missing when we moved in here. The pizzas were always on the ceiling."
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's a really nice kind of eviction. I met a landlord who will take your door off. There are 101 ways to move a family out.
~ Matthew Desmond
I like where I live," he said, landing behind the side pocket in his best Peter Pan pose. "You two women are too flaky to put my family in your hands. Just ask anyone here. They'd agree with me!" Ivy huffed and turned her back on him, muttering under her breath, but I could tell she was relieved her new landlord wasn't her mom.
~ Kim Harrison
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
~ John Quincy Adams
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.  This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England
~ Emily Bronte
What inn is this Where for the night Peculiar traveller comes? Who is the landlord? Where are the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth, No brimming tankards flow. Necromancer, landlord, Who are these below?
~ Emily Dickinson