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
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. — Horace 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
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden. — Reginald Farrer Copy Share Image
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she whispered. “It’s a box,” he whispered… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked… — Nigel Dennis 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
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
You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage… — Mary Oliver 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
Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
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