quotes about Palaces
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By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'
-- Amelia Warner -
Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
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But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
-- Bob Dylan -
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
-- Buenaventura DurrutiSource : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
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You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.
-- Catherine PonderSource : Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.63, Lulu.com
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I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
-- Christopher LoveSource : Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications
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Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
-- Danny KayeSource : "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. January 27, 1956.
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The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
-- Deborah Cox -
And keeps the palace of the soul.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, “On Tea”
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Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.
-- Frank Lentricchia -
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
-- Georg BuchnerSource : "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
-- George Henry Lewes -
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
-- Grant Morrison -
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie -
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A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
-- James FentonSource : "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.
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When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.
-- Jean Plaidy -
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
-- Jordin Sparks -
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
-- Karl Pilkington -
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The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics!
-- Keith Thibodeaux -
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
-- Leonard Maltin -
I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
-- Madeleine Albright -
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
-- Martin Short -
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
-- Mel Tillis -
You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater,
-- Oscar de la Renta -
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I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.
-- Phil Taylor -
The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.
-- Prince AndrewSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.
-- Rachel Jackson -
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
-- Richard Sibbes -
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There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
-- Robert Owen -
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.
-- Shaun Derry -
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There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.
-- Shaun Derry -
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
-- Shmuel Niger -
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
-- Wilfred Grenfell -
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
-- Wilfrid SheedSource : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
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Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
-- Woody Harrelson -
I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.
-- Konnie HuqSource : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.
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Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.
-- Antoine-Marin LemierreSource : "La Peinture". Poem by Antoine-Marin Lemierre, 1769.
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