Chimneys Quotes
93 quotes by 85 authors
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The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the…
— Vera Nazarian
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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk…
— Wallace Tripp
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Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will…
— John Bunyan
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Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a…
— Nicholas Culpeper
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From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether…
— Thomas Hobbes
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With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their…
— Adrian McKinty
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When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what…
— Jennifer James
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops…
— Charles Dickens
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The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and…
— Charles Dickens
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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures…
— Thomas Campion
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It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by…
— Primo Levi
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Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were…
— Tim Walker
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Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my…
— Bob Dylan
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I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.
— Tim Vine
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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
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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
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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
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Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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