Top 47 Quotes About Castles In The Air
#1. Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Maxim Gorky
#3. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
#6. But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.
Jane Feather
#7. I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.
Frei Otto
#9. Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
David Frost
#10. If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
William Osler
#14. There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
Edward Gibbon
#15. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
#16. When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#17. If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Victor Hugo
#18. I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.
Maureen Child
#19. My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
Thomas Love Peacock
#20. speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,
Charles Dickens
#21. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
#22. To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Richard Whately
#23. Castles in the air bow gracefully; Well protected - A little dreaming in pink glasses - Behind every joyful morning is a magical awakening.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#24. To me this out-of-the way corner was always a wonderful and a mysterious place, where my castles in the air stood close together in radiant rows, and where the strangest and most splendid adventures befell me; for the hours I passed in it and the people I met in it were all enchanted.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#25. Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.
Alvaro Mutis
#27. Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.
Eve Zibart
#28. You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
John Vanbrugh
#29. Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
Joni Mitchell
#31. Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
Louisa May Alcott
#32. Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.
Alexandre Dumas
#33. But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously.
Anne Frank
#34. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen
#35. By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
John Dewey
#36. And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.
Oswald Spengler
#37. If you build castles in the air you will not be able to live in them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Bram Stoker
#39. I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.
Kofi Annan
#40. When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.
Alex George
#41. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Reality seemed so paltry next to castles - dungeons - in the air.
Pico Iyer
#43. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
Iain Pears
#44. If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
Larry Constantine
#45. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#46. High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
Thomas Carlyle