Hovels Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but…
— Karl Marx
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Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came…
— Khalil Gibran
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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
— Horace
Who Wrote These Hovels Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Hovels Quotes as follows: