Manor Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably…
— William Rothenstein
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According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing,…
— Daniel J. Mitchell
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I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must…
— Jaz Coleman
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I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got…
— Jay Kay
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
— Barbara Stanwyck
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A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time…
— Penelope Keith
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In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since…
— Peter York
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I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.
— Pharrell Williams
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be…
— John Donne
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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you…
— Regina Doman
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She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was…
— Cassandra Clare
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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and…
— John Green
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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. "Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a…
— Brandon Sanderson
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A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to…
— John Flanagan
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At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I was not to the manor born.
— Israel Horovitz
Who Wrote These Manor Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Manor Quotes as follows: