Quotes About Stately Homes

#1. Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

Ray Davies

#3. The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

Felicia Hemans

#4. You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Peace
We passed their graves:
The dead men there,
Winners or losers,
Did not care.
In the dark
They could not see
Who had gained
The victory.

Langston Hughes

#6. I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know.

Craig Johnson

#7. In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#8. She is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sitting upon a rock
by the ocean
alone and damned.
I could have had
her once. I wonder
if she thinks I
could have
saved her?

Charles Bukowski

#9. I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.

Dana Rohrabacher

#10. It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

Kate Reardon

#11. I am smaller in size compared to everyone else. But my dreams are bigger than everyone else.

Yoseob

#12. Great men exist that there may be greater men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

Patrick Rothfuss