Boarding House Quotes

• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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• We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  America, People, House

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

  Bret Harte

  House, Rifles, Defense

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• Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

  Stephen Leacock

  Food, Squares, Two

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Silly, Animal, House

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

  James Howard Kunstler

  House, Example, May

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject.

  Harriet Martineau

  Book, Practice, House

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.200

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• It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

  Frances Trollope

  Dine In, Silence, House

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.37, Oxford University Press

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• They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

  Darrell Royal

  Football, Real, Cutting

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• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

  Steve Carell

  Death, New York, Husband

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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