Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come… — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing! — Joan Winmill Brown Copy Share Image
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come &… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live.… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer… — Karlie Kloss Copy Share Image
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which… — William Rothenstein Copy Share Image
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my… — John Howard Payne Copy Share Image
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the most horrible spot … lies…immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for… — Susan Branch Copy Share Image
An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream… — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Copy Share Image
I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
