Furniture Went Quote by Charles Dickens

“In the next room, perhaps twenty people were sitting around, drinking what looked like wine out of wine-glasses. They were the sort of people…

— Jesse Ball

“As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not help thinking that the garden in which he had gradually blown to…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a heavy piece, about thirty inches in height, carved of stone. And so ugly that it defied description. Surely only a blind…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He was sick of the noise and sight of so many people and determined to go quietly away, but it so happened that just…

— Susanna Clarke

“Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their…

— John Mortimer

“The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close conversation with…

— Baroness Emmuska Orczy

“All English stories get bogged down in whether or not the furniture is socially and aesthetically acceptable.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to…

— Noel Monk

“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a…

— Charles Dickens

“The Thwaites lived on Central Park West in the upper Eighties, in a building that, while manifestly grand, particularly to someone from Ohio, was…

— Claire Messud

“A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land. Nothing was hidden from him, and…

— Jacob Grimm

“So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray