Castles In The Air Quotes - Page 2

• Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vision, Privilege, Youth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.28

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• In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Air, Age, May

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.61, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Air, Giving

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• There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

  Edward Gibbon

  Writing, Air, Castles

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian”, p.164

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Live Life, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

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• The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

  John Ashcroft

  Air, Hysteria, Castles

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• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

  Maxim Gorky

  Air, Castles, Inns

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• No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

  John Vanbrugh

  Men, Wife, Infidelity

  'The Relapse' (1696) act 3, sc. 2

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• When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.82, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

  Anne Frank

  War, Air, Talking

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.77, Hamilton Books

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• The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Air, Castles

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• Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we have the means for becoming altogether holy in our walk and conversation. What dungeon is there that can shut us out from this? Only let us use the present location and means faithfully and truly, taking them from God's hand, and we shall find him able to free us from all that is really a hindrance. Let us each one desire to be a saint in his own place and calling, instead of building 'castles in the air' of future holiness.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Mean, Air, Hands

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• How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Men, Past, Air

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall,
  Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all.
  Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal,
  Lament those hardships which we cannot feel,
  His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please,
  But must I bellow too, who sit at ease?
  By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow,
  Free as the light and air some years ago.
  No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
  To tax our labours, and excise our brains.
  Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear,
  No tributes laid on castles in the air.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Smart, Dirty

  Charles Churchill (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.89

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• Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

  David Frost

  Air, Castles, Conservative

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

  Frances Wright

  Knowledge, Science, Air

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• Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Angel, Ice, Clouds

  Song: Both Sides Now

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• Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Air, Castles, Cost

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• There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

  Stella Benson

  Dream, Clouds, Air

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.

  Oswald Spengler

  Believe, Air, Creating

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “The Hour of Decision, Part One: Germany and World-historical Evolution”

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• Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.

  Álvaro Mutis

  Dream, Block, Air

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• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

  Bram Stoker

  I Hate You, Air, Sea

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.61, "F+W Media, Inc."

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