Musty Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the… — Florence Nightingale
Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
There was no smell. Over the years time other than when it rained, the musty odour was present. People were in and out of that… — John Wayne Gacy
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. — Benjamin Disraeli
Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion… — Christina Rossetti
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proverb is something musty. — William Shakespeare
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were… — Gerhard Richter
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit. — Larry Wall
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to… — Charles Churchill
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in… — Alexander Hamilton
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the… — Dan Stevens
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet… — Henry David Thoreau
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered… — Orson Scott Card
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life. — Jean Rhys

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