Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of…

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air I've got…

— Don McLean

“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles…

— Iain Pears

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

— Louisa May Alcott

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy…

— Stella Benson

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

— Richard Whately

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

— Edward Gibbon

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion…

— Anonymous

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

— Louisa May Alcott

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

— Charles Churchill

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building…

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough;…

— Jonathan Swift

And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly…

— Oswald Spengler