Castles quotes
147 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god."
"In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'."
"A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
"Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle."
"Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle."
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"Castles are Forrests of stones."
"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually."
"If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground."
"I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions."
"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?"
"No tribute is laid on castles in the air."
"Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle."
"Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me."
"I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" -"
"At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit."
"You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too."
"99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks."
"Have fun storming the castle!"
"Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington."
"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
"Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses."
"There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money."
"Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop."
"Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint."
""Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful."
