Chimney Quotes

73 Chimney quotes by 65 unique authors

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs… — Charles Caleb Colton
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The… — Robert Bridges
At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step… — E. J. Hughes
A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon… — John James Audubon
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through… — Stephen King
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of… — Vincent Van Gogh
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt… — Hubert H. Humphrey
I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. — Steve Martin
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The… — Bertrand Russell
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes… — Lorrie Moore
She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that… — Terry Pratchett
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? — Diane Setterfield
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill… — William Shakespeare
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to… — Mark Helprin
A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good… — J R Ward
Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust. — William Shakespeare
Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid’s chimney with his new friend,… — Rick Riordan
Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.’ Yeah, I’ll fetch those slippers and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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