Alas Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the…

— Thomas Merton

“Shame on those who remain unmoved, whose pace fails to quicken, on entering one of these old habitations, a manor-house falling to wrack and…

— Petrus Borel

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in…

— Arundhati Roy

“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We…

— Ayn Rand

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had…

— William Hope Hodgson

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken…

— Bruno Schulz

“History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on…

— Thomas B. Costain

“It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity of noble…

— David Hume

“No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God’s special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners. Considering our…

— David Eddings

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

— Gladys Taber