Palaces Quotes
274 Palaces quotes by 216 unique authors
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned…
— Anthony Trollope
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It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so…
— Gregory Maguire
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You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes.
— Terry Pratchett
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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…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to…
— Walt Disney
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I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.
— Lilith Saintcrow
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You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live…
— George MacDonald
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We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
— Grant Morrison
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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…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out…
— China Mieville
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake…
— Oscar Wilde
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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort…
— Mercedes Lackey
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It…
— William Shakespeare
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Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?
— Richelle Mead
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I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all…
— Helene Hanff
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She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of…
— William Blake
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The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to…
— Orhan Pamuk
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ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide…
— Richelle Mead
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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