Mansions Quotes

• Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

  James Joyce

  Time, Ruins, Eternity

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.910, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Confidence, Grace, Should

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• Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Weed, Rose, Grows

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

  James A. Michener

  Self Esteem, Men, Discovery

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• I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself.

  Dov Davidoff

  House, Rooms, Faces

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• The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Lewis Mumford (1928). “The Story of Utopias”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Thinking, Vacation

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• I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Depressing, Money, Sorry

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• The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

  Georg Hermes

  Soul, Form, Pilgrimage

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• The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sunshine, Long, Unity

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.349, e-artnow

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• We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

  Stephen Baxter

  Kids, Young, Ruined

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• O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Fall, Long

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.126

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• Honest work is much better than a mansion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honest, Honest Work

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.82, 1909.

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• Mansions once
  Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds,
  That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son.
  Now the legitimate and rightful lord
  Is but a transient guest, newly arrived,
  And soon to be supplanted. He that saw
  His patrimonial timber cast its leaf,
  Sells the last scantling, and transfers the price
  To some shrewd sharper ere it buds again. Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile,
  Then advertised and auctioneer'd away.

  William Cowper

  Father, Son, Bud

  William Cowper (1828). “The Poems of William Cowper”, p.227

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• If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

  Martin Freeman

  Scales, Plumber, Shed

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

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• The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Spirituality, Ghost, Modern

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• I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

  Ella T. Grasso

  Women, Wife, Needs

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• The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

  Matt Blunt

  Beautiful, Home, Chance

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• There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them.

  Bob Frank

  Circles, Income, Rich

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

  George Crabbe

  Silent, Awe, Walks

  'The Library' (1808) l. 105

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• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Jennings Bryan, Joe Cain (2009). “William Jennings Bryan's Last Message: A Reprint of His Famous Closing Arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Undelivered and Posthumously Published”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Nails, Decay

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• The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

  William Blake

  Time, Ruins, Eternity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.705, Univ of California Press

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• Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

  Alistair Maclean

  Fashion, Wrecks, Systematic

  Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”

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• Burn, baby, burn,” she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice. I cleared my throat. “As much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction you’re taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, I’d really like to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us.

  Jennifer Estep

  Baby, Hate, Voice

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