Best Cottages Quotations
120 Cottages quotes by 112 unique authors
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
— William Shakespeare
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The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and…
— Bruce Springsteen
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a…
— Laurence Sterne
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The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex…
— Robert Browning
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce…
— Tom Robbins
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That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that…
— George Orwell
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I…
— Diana Gabaldon
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in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had…
— Robin McKinley
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People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their…
— Andrzej Sapkowski
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that…
— John Keats
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And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the…
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live…
— George MacDonald
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The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and…
— Frank Zappa
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She dismounted, grabbed Enna's hand so tightly that she drew blood with her fingernails, walked straight into the nearest cottage, and plopped down on a…
— Shannon Hale
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There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried her body to…
— Daphne du Maurier
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You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any…
— Jane Austen
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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort…
— Mercedes Lackey
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We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know…
— Gary Shteyngart
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It…
— William Shakespeare
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Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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