Ancient Quote by Charles Dickens

“The walls inside were charred from some ancient fire, blackened and lichened and weathered hard, smelling faintly of a smoke so old there may…

— Jean Hegland

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once…

— Charles Dickens

“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top of the…

— Ray Bradbury

“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus the many…

— John Berwick Harwood

“Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one…

— James Caskey

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang,…

— John Updike

“If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the…

— Donna Tartt

“The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to look: the…

— Michael Montoure

“I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes…

— E. Lockhart

“When there was a summer of bad bush fires, all that was left of the house was the brick recess that had held the…

— Olga Masters

“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might…

— Susanna Clarke

“I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can walk around…

— Sissy Spacek Maryanne Vollers