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- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jacques Barzun
- A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Frederick Forsyth