Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house?… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“The French, I knew, were well ahead in this area, constructing gigantic palaces in the centre of cities which offer every luxury… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack -… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss… — Robin Spriggs Copy Share Image
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers,… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
