Mansion House Quotes

#1. Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

John Milton

#2. The density and permanence of the mansion were, of course, at ironic variance with the fact that the quondam master of the house, except for one hour in every fifty-nine days, was no more substantial than a moonbeam.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#3. Hillary showed off a new set of White House china at the mansion's 200th birthday dinner Thursday. She said she helped design it. It's thanks to her that all the White House china looks like it's been glued back together.

Argus Hamilton

#4. I don't like to speak badly of people ...

Andre The Giant

#5. Angie's house looked like a child's drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional.

Gillian Flynn

#6. Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.

John Irving

#7. I dare you to shuck your clothes, go sit in that chair, and execute my truth. -Taye

Ava Gray

#8. Burn, baby, burn," she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice.
I cleared my throat. "As much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction you're taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, I'd really
like to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us.

Jennifer Estep

#9. If they throw sticks at you,
build a house.
If they throw stones at you,
build a mansion.
If they throw bricks at you,
build a palace.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. If we are ever going to dwell in the house of the Lord, I believe, we do so now. If any house is divinely made, it is this one here, this great whirling mansion of planets and stars.

Scott Russell Sanders

#11. There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.

S.A. Tawks

#12. The word house didn't begin to do justice for the white and gray structure in front of me. I actually had to tilt my head back to see all the way up to the roof.

Jeaniene Frost

#13. When Martha gets out she'll be under house arrest in her big $40 million mansion in Bedford. Boy, that'll teach her. She's only allowed out of the house for doctors visits, grocery shopping, or to dump more stock.

David Letterman

#14. Hattie clambered from the train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud, the dream of Philadelphia round as a marble in her mouth and the fear of it a needle in her chest.

Ayana Mathis

#15. The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles

Wayne Wignall

#16. I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

Randy Pausch

#17. Once I saw Desjardins' house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids.
"Pyramids Road?" Sadie said. "Obvious, much?"
"Maybe he couldn't find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street," I suggested.

Rick Riordan

#18. I decided right then and there that if home is where the heart is, my heart has been homeless for a very long time.

Nicole Baart

#19. I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

Ross Macdonald

#20. Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

Randeep Hooda

#21. Then it came into his heart that he would command men to fashion a hall and a 55 mansion, a mightier house for their mead-drinking than the children of men had ever known, and

Unknown

#22. Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Thomas De Quincey

#23. Oh, mansion shmansion. Did Gandhi's house have the largest outdoor trampoline in the tristate area? Did Jesus have a two-acre remote-controlled car track, with mountains to scale and a little village that lit up at night?
Not in his Bible.

George Saunders

#24. There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Evelyn Waugh

#25. Conformity is irrelevant.

Chris Coulson

#26. The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

John Jakes

#27. Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

Joshua Stannard

#28. Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.

David Malouf

#29. If I could have enough money that I know I could buy a house someday, and if I want to have kids, I could raise them - I don't need the money grab. I don't need to have a mansion. I just need to be creative and happy.

Chris Gethard

#30. Before they knew it, Ormsby Island would become a paranormal attraction like Waverly Hills or Houghton Mansion or the Whaley House. The place would be crawling with people anxious to catch a ghost on camera or audio.

Hunter Shea

#31. I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

Romany Malco

#32. I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.

Jonathan Ames

#33. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Samuel Johnson

#34. Hell, rationality itself - the exalted Human ability to reason - hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will.

Peter Watts

#35. To love what you do. You must do what you love.

E'yen A. Gardner

#36. I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

Tammy Faye Bakker