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Palace Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner
- He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are…
- Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost…
- 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.…
- 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…
- You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of…
- He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across…
More Palace Quotes
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
- Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most… — Julie Burchill
- One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain
- God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not… — Thomas Brooks
- You cannot make a cheap palace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and… — Thomas Traherne
- Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. — Horace
- Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. — Richard Sibbes
- There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon
- The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. — Jean de la Bruyere