Below Stairs Quotes

#1. Murdered man anywhere. Everything belonging to him had been destroyed. He himself had burned what had been below-stairs. The world would simply say that he was mad.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Hobie's presence below stairs was an anchor, a friendly weight ...

Donna Tartt

#3. A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

Edward Lear

#4. The alphabet was an invention below stairs.

David Sacks

#5. Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. We stood as the ground shifted
and we saw the view from below
through tiled floors
and concrete stairs,
our feet burning holes in the foundation
while you whispered of dreams.

Marie Anzalone

#7. What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

Empedocles

#8. I am everything what u see and I can be anything what I want to be.

Nandini Sharma

#9. At the first turning of the second stair
I turned and saw below
The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
The deceitful face of hope and of despair

T. S. Eliot

#10. PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Ambrose Bierce

#11. God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. He's as smooth as a fresh-laid turd and gives off the same smell.

Ian Rankin

#13. As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

Prince William

#14. So pervasively has Enlightenment culture's anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

Craig S. Keener

#15. We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

Pope Francis

#16. On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Voltaire

#18. Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Ada Leverson

#19. She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose] ...

Eva Ibbotson

#20. If I used a higher percentage of my brain I wouldn't of had to ride on the short bus.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#21. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

Eva Ibbotson