Mantelpiece Quotes

#1. No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.

Andrew Barrett

#2. What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

George Orwell

#3. I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne

Rio Ferdinand

#4. On the mantelpiece, the photograph of a chimpanzee and a statuette of the Buddha. This proximity, more accidental than intentional, makes me wonder over and over where my place might be between these two extrems, man's pre and transfiguration.

Cioran

#5. Yes, indeed, I am the stuff, the prize property, the recaptured trophy he will put up on the mantelpiece, in a rage every time I move a millimeter or look less polished, less tarted up than he thinks I should look. In a rage, every time I disappoint him. Which will happen every day.

Kaimana Wolff

#6. Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece

Rio Ferdinand

#7. Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

Gabriel Lippmann

#9. Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece

Rio Ferdinand

#10. The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

Lucinda Franks

#11. I'll ring for Mrs. Mullet, Feely said, reaching for a velvet pull that hung near the mantelpiece, and which probably hadn't been used since George the Third was foaming at the mouth.

Alan Bradley

#12. Great Elephants!" said Gandalf, "you are not at all yourself this morning - you have never dusted the mantelpiece!" "What's that got to do with it?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

Charles Bronson

#14. Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

Mervyn Peake

#15. The Buddha laughed in silence from the mantelpiece.

Lauren Groff

#16. My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.

Annabel Pitcher

#17. It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Michael Leunig

#18. You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece.

Fay Weldon

#19. I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Virginia Woolf

#20. I felt the kiss still there on my forehead. Literally. It was frozen there. I could still feel it. I wanted to bronze it, like people do with baby shoes. I wanted to mount it and hang it over my mantelpiece.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#21. Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

Mary Leakey

#22. When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind - they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful.

A.M. Hudson

#23. My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

Caitlyn Jenner

#24. I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

David Livingstone

#26. There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Jay McInerney

#27. You have to look closely
To see that it is pretty
You have to look long
To see that it is lovable
You are the same

Na Taejoo

#28. The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#29. When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

Simon McBurney

#30. Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

Martin Amis

#31. MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

Darnell Lamont Walker