Palaces Quotes

• Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Stones, Grain

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

  Teresa of Avila

  Magnificence, Remember, Self Knowledge

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• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Domes

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Kings, Years, Stories

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• Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

  John Donne

  Motivational, Jail, World

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

  Frank McCourt

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Shoes

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

  Henry James

  Museums, Radical

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.550, Library of America

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• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Men

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• She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Dream, I Hate You

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• Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

  Georg Buchner

  War, Shack

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

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• Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

  Catherine Ponder

  Wall, Prosperity, Peace Within

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Memories, Believe, Homeland

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• If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Journey, Goal, Finding Yourself

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.52, Sahitya Akademi

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• The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Cottages, Safe

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The palace we built has become a prison.

  2D

  Prison, Built

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• I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Stars, Spring

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• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  John Milton

  Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

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• Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  Woody Harrelson

  Excess, X Files, Always Believe

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• I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

  Mel Tillis

  Years, Next Year, Performing

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• The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

  Joyce Cary

  Children, Teaching, Punishment

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Swans, Sky, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Queens, Princess, Should Have

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• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Successful, Reality, Pieces

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.116, Penguin UK

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