Palaces Quotes - Page 3

• It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Cities, America, Spain

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Tea, Doe

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Funny, Success, Humorous

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• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

  William Shakespeare

  Following Instructions, Advice, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.

  Clarke Peters

  Guy, Theatre, Musician

  "Clarke Peters: 'Lester Freamon's the guy I'd like to grow up to be'". Interview with om Lamont, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Venice, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Light, Darkness

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• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Clerks, Endless, Mock

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• You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Believe, Blood, Sound

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• Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  William Shenstone

  Hope, Men, Poor

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

  Shmuel Niger

  Knowledge, Library, Generations

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• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, White, Order

  Victor Hugo (18??). “Les miserables. Pt. 1”

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• I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

  Dalai Lama

  Want, Way, Prisoner

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Country, Memorable, Looks

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• Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  Intrigue, Ambiguity, Hesitation

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

  Lord Byron

  Hands, Bridges, Venice

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 1 (1818)

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• When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Home, Clothes, Space

  "The Prince". Political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532.

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• And keeps the palace of the soul.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul

  Edmund Waller, “On Tea”

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• Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Promise, I Promise, Contradiction

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• I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.

  Jaye Davidson

  Dream, Art, Would Be

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• Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

  William Arthur Ward

  Persistence, Wish, World

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• You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

  C. S. Lewis

  Cottages, Littles, Building

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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