Palace Quotes
233 Palace quotes by 186 unique authors
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Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi…
— David Eddings
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I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets…
— William Shakespeare
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The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.
— Rick Riordan
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Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter"…
— Rick Riordan
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I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long,…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there…
— Kristin Cashore
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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is…
— Terry Pratchett
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Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being…
— Melina Marchetta
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... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
— Michael Ondaatje
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Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want…
— E. M. Forster
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…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your ownâ€; and it struck me, as my automaton…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the…
— Alex Scarrow
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t…
— Frank McCourt
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No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left.…
— Heinrich Harrer
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We got an expression ride back to the palace of Hades. Nico sent word ahead, thanks to some ghost he summoned out of the ground,…
— Rick Riordan
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My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Palace Quotes
186 authors contributed a total of 233 Palace Quotes, led by these top contributors: