Top 100 Quotes About A Palace
#1. A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
Shmuel Niger
#2. Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa
#4. I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
Mark Twain
#8. He wanted to be all-powerful in Scarlet's eyes. He wanted to be well able to provide for her. Hell, he might just buy her a palace of her own. Actually, no. He'd build the bitch with his bare hands. "Amazing.
Gena Showalter
#10. Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. Earth-toned slate, and the walls were painted in a golden-brown color. Everything looked luxurious. My mother would have died if she saw this place. It looked like a palace. We walked through the hallway into a large open room, which had floors
Cameo Renae
#12. Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
Christopher Love
#14. I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace.
James Enns
#15. Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.
Pascal Mercier
#16. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.
Lord Byron
#18. [T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#19. Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
#20. Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#21. Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants' quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#22. Time ... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.
Walter Bradford Cannon
#23. Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
Horace
#24. If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.
Rabindranath Tagore
#25. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Frank McCourt
#27. I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!
Dalai Lama
#28. I grew up wondering if I'd have food for supper; now I'm standing in a palace about to be eaten alive. Red
Victoria Aveyard
#29. I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.
Corbin Bernsen
#30. Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.
Edward Snowden
#31. Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers, and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rats, dry rot, and death-watch beetles are tunnelling away, till, at the very moment of completion, it is ready to fall down.
Cyril Connolly
#32. It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
Woodrow Wilson
#33. The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I.
Einar Mar Gudmundsson
#34. Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
Teresa Of Avila
#35. My island was not wild, compared to this.
There are such monsters in a palace.
Foz Meadows
#36. Today I feel like Psyche on the cliff, cold and afraid. But if I can overcome this night and give in to the mystery and faith in life, I will awake in a palace. All I need is time.
Paulo Coelho
#37. 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.
Sylvia Plath
#38. Where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace;- well then, he can also live well in a palace.
Marcus Aurelius
#39. When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#41. You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
Graham Greene
#42. I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina," he finally says. "You've handed me what feels like the world's riches, a palace, a life of luxury." He draws closer. "I get to be at your side. What more do I need?
Marie Lu
#43. 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.
Marcus Aurelius
#45. I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#46. God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.
Ravi Zacharias
#47. Not every road we follow will bring us to a palace or castle.
Jan Jansen
#48. Every girl thinks about growing up in a palace. Few ever ponder living in a cage.
Ally Carter
#49. Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love.
J.K. Rowling
#50. 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)
George MacDonald
#51. I never was in love with him. I only imagined I was. You know that. You know I'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams and fulfillment than a queen in a palace.
L.M. Montgomery
#52. I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.
Jacqueline Carey
#53. PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.
Ambrose Bierce
#54. He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here - it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.
Ayn Rand
#55. It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.
Louis Untermeyer
#56. This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
Aberjhani
#57. California house, a palace on a cliff by the Pacific, and her father's house, the largest in New York City, with a tower and 121 rooms, including one adorned with gold. Taking all this in, the neurologist wasn't exactly sure how much to credit this tale of
Bill Dedman
#58. By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
#59. Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.
Anonymous
#60. Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace
#61. I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?
Catherynne M Valente
#62. Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
Carl Jung
#64. Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Walter Savage Landor
#65. The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean De La Bruyere
#66. 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.
Martin Short
#67. The feast I ate was rotten,
What I thought was a palace was a dungeon.
Stephen King
#68. Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds it's way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#69. How do I know Michael hasn't met some other girl?
Some Floridian girl, with long,sun-streaked hair, and a tan,and breasts? Who has access to the Internet and isn't cooped up in a palace with her crazy grandma,a homeless,Speedo-wearing prince and a freakish,hairless miniature poodle?
Meg Cabot
#70. Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
Adam Rayner
#71. I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of 'art' (p. 213).
Edith Schaeffer
#72. The closet is a closet, but it's also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms.
Erin Entrada Kelly
#73. 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
C.S. Lewis
#74. Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
John Lubbock
#75. A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
James Fenton
#77. I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable.
Dean Koontz
#78. I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.
Dennis Miller
#79. Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Garrison Keillor
#80. The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for
Louisa May Alcott
#81. I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
Karl Pilkington
#82. My wife likes to say that the mind is a palace with room for many guests. Perhaps the butler takes care to install the delegates of Science in a different wing from the emissaries of Faith, lest they take up arguing in the passages.
Laini Taylor
#83. I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.
B.J. The Chicago Kid
#84. The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.
Orhan Pamuk
#85. Her grandparents' house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#86. What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.
Murasaki Shikibu
#87. So how'd an academic end up walking a zombie through a palace on a heist job?
Patrick Weekes
#88. America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.
Ron Brackin
#89. Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.
Rita Gelman
#90. Rumours of Damen's enslavement in Vere had spread like fire through the camp. To see the Veretian Prince wear the gold cuff of a palace bed slave in turn was shocking, intimate, a symbol of Damen's ownership. Damen
C.S. Pacat
#91. And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.
Rose Fyleman
#92. There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
Grant Morrison
#93. He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.
Rick Riordan
#94. But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin ...
Katherine Mansfield
#96. 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
#98. Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.
Khushwant Singh
#99. I am a Palace", I said to them, smiling.
Various
#100. It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge. - MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER IN HARPER'S WEEKLY, MAY 24, 1883
David McCullough
