#castles

I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! ↗

— Catherine Bell

#back #been #biking #castles #england

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ↗

— Richard Whately

#castles #examine #know #passion #ruling

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#buy #castle #castles #enough #forty

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs. ↗

— Susan Hill

#ghosts #gothic #graveyards #horror #ruins

When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#catholic #catholicism #middle-ages #religion #soccer

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#i #other #participated #people #someone

I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside. ↗

— Lily Collins

#castles #countryside #fascinated #i #just

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. ↗