Bed Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

“rooms. They were upstairs. At the back of the shop a spiral staircase led up to a balcony overlooking the dresses below. A dozen…

— Angela Roquet

“The shelves covered all four walls of the square room, broken in three places by tall, narrow windows with stained-glass inserts above and upholstered…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Varnish and gilding hide many stains.”

— Jane Austen

“It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken…

— Graham Greene

“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of…

— Jean Rhys

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“There were many suggestions as to improvements: the addition of a window here and a door there, the insertion of an extra basin for…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my…

— Celeste Simone

“She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing…

— Karan Johar

“He would scrub the floors on his hands and knees, beat the rugs, wash the windows and pound the bed linen in the tin…

— Christina McKenna