Parlour Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the…
— Ellen Glasgow
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished…
— Tom Jones
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People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to…
— Mark Sutton
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Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from…
— Ray Bradbury
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There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back…
— Lena Headey
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I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to…
— John Mahoney
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Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.
— Mary Howitt
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
— A. N. Wilson
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If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When…
— Tom Stoppard
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The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings,…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the…
— Rachel Joyce
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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary…
— Gavin MacLeod
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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them…
— Kenneth Grahame
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There's no place like Home . No matter wherever you are, at Game parlour, at bar, at 5-star Hotel, at disco club, at disney land…
— Somen Murtem
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Getting my dragon was perhaps the biggest surprise. I was in Amsterdam and got a little crazy, dropping my pants at a tattoo parlour and…
— Angelina Jolie
Who Wrote These Parlour Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Parlour Quotes as follows: