By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself. — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start… — Paul Ince Copy Share Image
If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds,… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. — Shmuel Niger Copy Share Image
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight! — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom. — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
