"The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace……" — Bill Vaughan
"The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah."
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191 Quotes by Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan has 191 quotes on this site.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in…
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to…
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets…
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More Battlements Quotes
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that…
— John Owen
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments,…
— John Owen
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,…
— John Milton
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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs…
— Joaquin Miller
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in…
— Bram Stoker
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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle…
— Cornelia Funke
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing…
— Catherine Fisher
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the…
— Emma Donoghue
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