Abbey Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. — Jane Austen
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were… — George Harrison
In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly — Allen Leech
I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such… — Jack Whitehall
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in… — Tobias Smollett
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and… — Karina Longworth
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop… — Jack Irons
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF… — Robert Baden-Powell
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all… — Karl Philipp Moritz
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz
Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic. — Allison Pearson
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just… — David Bianculli
Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the… — Bernd Heinrich
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,… — Henry James
Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was… — Ray Wylie Hubbard
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a… — Aleksandar Hemon

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