#palace

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. ↗

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri ↗

— Shannon Hale

#palace-of-stone #sister #funny

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #love #moon #palace #love

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#few #great #men #never #occupies

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#america #better #build #built #cities

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ↗

— Horace

#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages. ↗

— Christopher Love

#finished #going #i #i am #now

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. ↗

— John Milton

#eternity #golden #key #opens #palace

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. ↗