There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it… — David Swing Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house?… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“The French, I knew, were well ahead in this area, constructing gigantic palaces in the centre of cities which offer every luxury… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time… — Amelia Warner Copy Share Image
Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for… — Anonymous 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
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told… — Rita Gelman Copy Share Image
When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk,… — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead 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
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image