Air Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

— Edward Gibbon

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

— Fanny Burney

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

— Victor Hugo

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

— Josh Billings

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

— Louisa May Alcott

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Unless you build castles in the air, how can you make them?”

— Tapan Ghosh

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations…

— Henry David Thoreau

“But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.”

— Jane Feather

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

— Henrik Ibsen