Palaces Quotes
274 Palaces quotes by 216 unique authors
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one,…
— Ian Botham
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I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands…
— Anthony Holden
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I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
— Seamus Heaney
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
— Edmund Waller
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Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In…
— Cornelius Castoriadis
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital,…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to…
— Phil Taylor
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Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the…
— Lucy Parsons
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied…
— John Ruskin
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On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was…
— Hideki Tojo
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When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like…
— Phil Bredesen
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
— Georg Buchner
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Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.
— Catherine Ponder
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The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
— William Butler Yeats
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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
— Laozi
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When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
— Laozi
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When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked,…
— Jean Plaidy
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The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at…
— Deborah Cox
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I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
— Wilfred Grenfell
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The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how…
— Prince Andrew
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In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'
— Alan Brazil
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Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.
— Frank Lentricchia
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And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in…
— John Masefield
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All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Palaces Quotes
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