Top 100 The Palace Quotes
#1. I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
Seamus Heaney
#2. Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.
Thomas Aquinas
#3. Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
Horace
#4. I didn't have to worry about her, which was why she couldn't leave the palace one day. What about me?
Kiera Cass
#5. We shouldn't compare the success of two kings knowing that one was born in the palace while the other in the street...
Assegid Habtewold
#6. Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
Laozi
#8. He left the tavern and began walking through the maze of buildings and cobblestone streets to find his way back to the palace. However, soon he found himself hopelessly lost. Ten . . . eleven . . . fifteen drinks. How many had he had? "Oh, Nic," he mumbled. "Not good. Not good at all.
Morgan Rhodes
#9. You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.
David Eddings
#10. There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.
Patricia A. McKillip
#11. Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious court. As we enter the palace, we are blinded by the ascent from sunshine into darkness.
Katherine Longshore
#12. Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding.
David Eddings
#13. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#14. He knows the conspirators are waiting for a sign from the Sultana to light the fuse, but she has given orders never to disturb her while she is reading, not even if the palace were about to blow up ...
Italo Calvino
#15. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
Danny Kaye
#16. You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.
Rajneesh
#18. I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
Morris Gleitzman
#19. A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.
Marie Rutkoski
#21. You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
Mark Twain
#22. I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.
Martha Gellhorn
#23. She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
Walt Disney Company
#24. You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
Bob Dylan
#25. but I noticed she was parked on a bench near the back wall of the palace in the brutally hot sun, her closest companion
Kiera Cass
#26. One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
E. Lockhart
#27. Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
Margaret Mead
#28. The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door.
Jim Butcher
#29. And then I was simply running, flying along the hallways of the palace on glass-slippered feet, not knowing, not caring where I was going. The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.
Cameron Dokey
#30. The palace of Ephebe is a labyrinth. I know. There are traps. No one gets in without a guide." "How does the guide get in?" said Vorbis. "I assume he guides himself," said the general.
Terry Pratchett
#31. My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and - oh, yeah - head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
Rick Riordan
#32. While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.
Edward Gibbon
#33. Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton
#34. Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'
'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.
Melina Marchetta
#35. However, if we strike quickly - while Iadon is still ignorant of our intentions - we could get my legion into the palace and take the king hostage.
Brandon Sanderson
#36. I will see you again," Hades promised. "I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks."
"Now I can't tell if you're joking.
Rick Riordan
#40. Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.
Alethea Kontis
#41. The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
Michael Ondaatje
#42. One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.
Cardinal Richelieu
#43. That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.
Denis Irwin
#44. One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
Victor Hugo
#45. We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.
Evan Meekins
#46. She dreamed of escape - of growing wings like a bird and flying away from the palace, never to return. But, alas, she was a bird still locked tightly in her cage.
Morgan Rhodes
#47. 8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.
Sei Shonagon
#48. When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.
Rajneesh
#49. On behalf of the King, the guards requested that she stay in the palace rather than with the locals, which Alice declined as she preferred to be treated just like other participants. A
Nona J. Fairfax
#50. Someday soon, I fear the palace will be soaked through with blood and all of Artemisia Lake will be so red, even the Earthens will be able to see it.
Marissa Meyer
#51. They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
Anthony Holden
#53. Now, about your timetable. It may spread out a little more than you thought. They want me to visit the palace and see it for myself. We're to go in the Emir's yacht, leaving tonight.
Susan Leona Fisher
#54. Fortunately, when I was in the palace, I got some practice stabbing him in the heart. This time, I was much better at it. And did it ten times instead of once. Then cut off his head." "I always thought the secret of your success was your thoroughness.
Edward W. Robertson
#55. I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.
Jordin Sparks
#56. You're dismissed, Lieutenant," the captain said evenly. "Go to your quarters."
"Yes,sir,thank you,sir," Tadark squeaked, glancing about miserably before sloshing into the palace, his dignity as waterlogged as his boots.
Cayla Kluver
#57. Anyway, this time I caught her in the slow stirring of biscuits, her mind on other things, but anyhow, she was distracted enough, I was determined enough,this time I got just what I wanted. Permission to play at the Palace.
Karen Hesse
#58. We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.
Oliver Heaviside
#59. It's a miracle the king managed to resist executing you until yesterday." "Tell me he's in a rage the likes of which have never been seen before." "If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear him shrieking from the palace.
Sarah J. Maas
#60. Greet the sky and live, blossom! ... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.
Jacqueline Carey
#61. There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.
Shaun Derry
#62. Keeping all things in their places. Everybody was dressed for a Fancy Ball that was never to leave off. From the Palace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows),
Charles Dickens
#63. This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.
Gustave Flaubert
#64. One more patronizing comment and I will have you slice off and nail your own tongue to the palace gate.
Marissa Meyer
#65. It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [ ... ] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous.
Ben Okri
#66. When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner from the palace, and nothing more. We wanted nothing more.
Philippa Gregory
#67. But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer
#68. The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back.
Roger Zelazny
#69. I have served Almighty God as best as I can. I have failed at times, but "Perfection is the palace in which God alone lives.
Saladin Ahmed
#70. I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.
Alwyn Hamilton
#71. The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.
Magnus Flyte
#72. The brigand in the inner palace had led the guards on a lively chase, picking corridors and servants' hallways almost as if he had studied the palace layout.
Patrick Weekes
#73. I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail.
Kelly Batten
#74. The functionaries in the courtyard of the Palace threw open their wooden shutters and settled in for a long day of saying "fuck off in the name of the duke" to all comers.
Scott Lynch
#76. 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
#77. Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.
William McFee
#78. I'd be surrounded by scores of guards at the palace, but I couldn't imagine a place safer than my father's arms.
Kiera Cass
#79. We can go without dancing and things a little longer."
"Especially since our Great Slipper Scandal quickened the undead and nearly destroyed the palace," said Bramble. "It put us off dancing for at least an hour.
Heather Dixon
#80. Ivy Huxford kept peeking out and giving reports of who was there, and how she never saw so many seats filled in the Palace, and that she didn't think they could squeeze a rattlesnake into the back even if he paid full price, the place was so packed.
Karen Hesse
#81. The ladies who came to the palace tended to be less aggressive physically. But their words could probably start wars if said in the wrong tone.
Kiera Cass
#82. Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.
Marissa Meyer
#83. But the palace of knowledge is different from the palace of discovery, in which I am, truly, a Copernicus.
Mary Oliver
#84. Sprinted past him up the stairs, toward the royal family's wing of the palace.
Rachel Hartman
#85. So? They're paid to be ogled at," said Moist. "They are professional oglees. It's an ogling establishment. For oglers. And you heard what's going on in the palace. We could be at war in a day. Do you trust that lot? Trust me.
Terry Pratchett
#86. Death of the righteous ... is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
Billy Graham
#87. Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
Mason Cooley
#88. Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.
Abel Bonnard
#89. Nefertiti!" I shouted. "Meritaten!" How could they both be gone? Where could they be? I rounded the corner to the window of Appearences, then opened the door.
The blood had already spread across the tiles.
"Nefertiti!" I screamed, and my voice echoed through the palace.
Michelle Moran
#90. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.
Shan Sa
#91. Her netlink fished for information, telling her that the palace had been built after World War IV, when the city was little more than rubble.
Marissa Meyer
#92. I would not be a rose upon the wall
A queen might stop at, near the palace-door,
To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,
It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!
I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,
Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#93. The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward.
Terry Goodkind
#94. When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.
John Lasseter
#95. Your
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intervention, shall we say, has simplified things in the palace enormously. We no longer have to worry about Salmissra's whims and peculiar appetites. We rule by committee, and we hardly ever find it necessary to poison each other anymore. No one's tried to poison me for months.
David Eddings
#96. Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Laozi
#97. Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the palace of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like unwelcome visitors.
Robin S. Sharma
#98. What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they'll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.
Anne Rice
#99. The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
Bill Vaughan
#100. One of the things that I've learned from the Selection so far is that moving forward means joining your life before coming to the palace with the future that lies in front of you. I'm hoping to make another step in joining those two worlds today.
Kiera Cass
