Palaces Quotes
274 quotes by 224 authors
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have…
— Umberto Eco
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A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
— Samuel Johnson
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Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears,…
— Rajneesh
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For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the…
— John Bagot Glubb
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most…
— Montgomery Schuyler
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He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without…
— Benjamin Smith
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A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
— Shmuel Niger
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Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long…
— Carl Jung
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.
— John Howard Payne
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Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.
— Alexander Lukashenko
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If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic.…
— Daniel Finkelstein
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It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.
— Shaun Derry
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That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.
— Denis Irwin
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There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.
— Shaun Derry
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling…
— John Keats
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As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is…
— Jose Mujica
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those…
— Hannah More
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The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine…
— Einar Mar Guðmundsson
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