Abbey Quotes

• No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Love You, Men

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.92, Wild Jot Press

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• I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

  Lukas Haas

  Abbey Road, Track, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Holiday, Church, Sacred

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.570, Dell

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• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• ‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Wings, Roots

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

  Jack Irons

  Running, Abbey Road, Waiting

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• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Views, Numbers, House

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Gloomy, Westminster Abbey, Ought

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.54, BoD – Books on Demand

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• You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Couple, Keys, Ideas

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  A. N. Wilson

  Kings, Queens, Eerie

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• Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

  David Bianculli

  Drama, Television, Tvs

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• I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

  Rob James-Collier

  Drama, Proud, Facts

  "'Downton Abbey's Rob James-Collier On His Tragic Hero Thomas Barrow, Dancing With Dame Maggie Smith And Waiting For The Next Role". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 18, 2015.

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• In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly

  Allen Leech

  Clothes

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• The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Andrew, Westminster Abbey

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• I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Mean, Suits, Dresses

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• I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey.

  Keeley Hawes

  Episodes

  "'Big Bang Theory's' Mayim Bialik Blogs Her Emmy Party Highlights" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 23, 2012.

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Machines, World

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• your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

  Brian Jacques

  Doors, May, Roaming

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• You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

  Christine Feehan

  Toads, Sheriffs, Turns

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.76, Penguin

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• I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.

  Nigel Slater

  Food, Thinking, Self

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• I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

  Tobias Smollett

  Ideas, Water, Rotten

  Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

  Julian Fellowes

  Week, Maggie, Ends

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• This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

  Melissa de la Cruz

  College

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• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Silence, Mind

  "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.

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