Furniture Quote by Terry Pratchett

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate…

— Alain de Botton

“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we…

— Alfred De Musset

“Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all…

— Marcel Proust

“of such spread around in little dried piles. The room’s furnishings — which consisted of little more”

— George Wier

“in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the…

— Herman Melville

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

— William Shakespeare

“Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven without trying…

— Diane Setterfield

“As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times to consecrate…

— Robert W. Chambers

“have kitchens, who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in…

— Victor Hugo

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

— Francis Jourdain

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“At this point, a social flaw that always existed with regard to the [Roman] aristocrats in their townhouses became more evident. No longer finding…

— Norman F. Cantor