Stately Home Quotes

#1. I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#2. Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

Rupert Friend

#3. With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

Kit Harington

#4. We deny our destiny because it's leading us toward happiness, and all we want is security.

Paulo Coelho

#5. 1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

Virginia Woolf

#7. The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#8. We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

Justin Alcala

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

Felicia Hemans

#10. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.

Herman Melville

#11. You've kept that fire burning all this time, despite all you've lost. There's nothing stronger than that. Nothing.

Mia Sheridan