Marble Quotes

253 quotes by 208 authors

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick,… — Amy Lowell
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the… — Mervyn Peake
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or… — Alfred de Vigny
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen… — Khalil Gibran
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like… — John Muir
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shapeâ€¦… — Alan Moore
Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes… — Lawrence Durrell
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how… — Steven Erikson
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. — Aldous Huxley
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my… — Shirley Jackson
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human… — Mark Morford

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