Castles Quotes - Page 7

• This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eggs, Ham, Handsome

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.452, Random House

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• Fang! Angel?" i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Jewels, Trying

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• Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

  William Allingham

  Temptation, Soul, Foundation

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Facts

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• I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.

  Alyson Noel

  Beautiful, Princess, Ideas

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.

  J. K. Rowling

  Suits Of Armor, Done, Crash

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• I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!

  Joan Winmill Brown

  Perspective, Cottages, Wonder

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• But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Girl, Lying, Home

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

  Walter Scott

  Dragons, Saint George, England

  Walter Scott (2016). “Ivanhoe, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.1”, p.297, VM eBooks

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• The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Home, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Horse, Princess, White

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

  Edward Coke

  Home, Men, House

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• I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.

  Gaelen Foley

  Boys, Trying, Ghost

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• I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

  Evan Jones

  Sorry, Father, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

  Liam Payne

  Ketchup, Ifs

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• There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

  Nathan Fillion

  Tragedy, Comedy

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• If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Swim, Moats, Want

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• The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life

  Stana Katic

  Reality, People, Crew

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• In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Character, Trying

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Pigs, Should Have

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

  Joey Comeau

  Sex, Regret, Princess

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• This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Book, Home, Eye

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Literature

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

  Frank Laubach

  Defeat, Fortune, Buried

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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