Palaces Quotes

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

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.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

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.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

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.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

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.

A library is a palace of dreams.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

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.

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

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.

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

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

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

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.'

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)