Palaces Quotes - Page 8

• Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Easter, Strong, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.162, Best Books on

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• Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

  Evo Morales

  Sports, Presidential, Alcohol

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• Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Cottages, Misery, Born

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.162

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• One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Believe, Rome

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• The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

  Philip Sidney

  Envy, House, Inward

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• Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.

  Rita Gelman

  Airplane, Men, Islands

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• If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Sorrow, Cottages

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.24

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• In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

  Horace Walpole

  Queens, Hands, Drawing

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• People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.

  E. M. Delafield

  Knowing, People, Drunk

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.4805, Delphi Classics

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• Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.

  Edward Jenks

  Growing Up, Law, Justice

  "A Short History Of The English Law". Book by Edward Jenks, (First Edition), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 364, 1912.

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• Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Evil, Towns, Prostitution

  "Homage to Qwert Yuiop: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (What Shakespeare Smelt)". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.

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• He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!

  Ray Davies

  Fashion, Flower, Thinking

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• Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Eye, Simple, Views

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.39

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• Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're recycling. If all you're doing is recycling - if you've got three automobiles, and 10 children, and a 7,000-square-foot dot-com palace and second home up in the mountains that has to be heated - the recycling isn't making much difference.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Children, Home, Squares

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Vision, Illusion, Objectives

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Cheer, Dark, Hands

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.92

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• Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Horse, Children, Fall

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.60

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• A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

  Danny Kaye

  Poison, Court Jester, Chalice

  "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. January 27, 1956.

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• Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Ordinary, Talent

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• Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

  Gloria Allred

  Princess, Fighting, Rights

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• I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Garden, Cities, Office

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Doors, Self, Ordinary World

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Among a hundred windows shining
  dully in the vast side
  of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
  one burns
  these several years, each night
  as if the room within were aflame.

  Denise Levertov

  Night, Years, Numbers

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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