Castles Quotes · Page 6

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

— Anonymous

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

— Og Mandino

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

— Warren Buffett

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

— Haruki Murakami

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

— Craig Charles

“You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build?”

— Haresh Sippy

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

— Eliza Cook

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

— Josh Billings

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin…

— John Wooden

Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

— William Cobbett

“FANTASIES It’s not a problem to build castles in the air; it becomes a problem when we start living in them.”

— Amar Ochani

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort…

— Justin Adams

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

— Arthur Rimbaud

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in…

— Thomas Love Peacock

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

— Edward Coke

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to…

— Pete Seeger

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's…

— Anne Frank

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no…

— Shana Alexander

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

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

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

— Don McLean

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still…

— Max Ehrmann

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within…

— William Shakespeare

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to…

— Neal A. Maxwell

so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you cannot find your prince and…

— Hayley Williams

“She needed a distraction. “Was that your mother?” The splashing stopped. “Are you going to converse while I bathe?” “Why not?” “Feels…

— Angela Quarles

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not…

— George MacDonald

“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white…

— Aberjhani

This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they…

— Anonymous

For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I…

— Richard Siken

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

— Walter Scott

“But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.”

— Jane Feather

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles

— Stephan Jenkins

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

— Anonymous

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton