Drawing Room Quotes

30 quotes by 27 authors

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking… — Henry David Thoreau
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young… — Jacques Barzun
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man… — Stewart Edward White
From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny… — W.N.P. Barbellion
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not… — Anthony Trollope
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil… — Edvard Munch
There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room,… — Julian Fellowes
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. — Peter Lawford
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out… — Frederick Forsyth
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could… — Peter De Vries
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were… — C.S. Lewis
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or… — Daniel Day-Lewis
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of… — Virginia Woolf
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;… — Virginia Woolf
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir

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