Battlements Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon… — John Owen
Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells… — Ann Radcliffe
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built… — John Owen
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,… — John Milton
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars. — William Wordsworth
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our… — Abraham Lincoln
Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here… — Joaquin Miller
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. — Bill Vaughan
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast… — Bram Stoker
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke
The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies… — Catherine Fisher
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding… — Zelda Fitzgerald
And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen… — Emma Donoghue

Who Wrote These Battlements Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Battlements Quotes as follows: