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The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
My kingdom for a flush toilet.
Beautiful homes with beautiful flowers
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.
The closet is a closet, but it's also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms.
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there's no escaping it.
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
White marble bridges with dragons sleeping on the end-posts; paved courtyards replete with trees, each strung with twinkling silk lanterns in lieu of fruit; courtiers clothed in a myriad of jewel tones.
You cannot make a cheap palace.
We admire the castles, because we admire the security!
only slightly less magnificent than the neighboring palazzo.
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin..
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.
Buildings are forms of performances.
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!
For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!
One finds nobility in the oddest places.
Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
Trust me, darling, it is never a good idea to have too many queens in one place, let alone one palace." "To
I like castles almost as much as I like museums. Centuries of bloodshed and betrayal and heartache, all under one roof. You just don't get history like that back home
walled fields and low, rambling buildings, presenting
Home. This magnificent palace had been her home since she was eleven. She'd came to it as a farmer's daughter, and now she'd leave it as a soldier.
Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.
High on a throne of royal state, which far
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
The limo pulled up to two crescent-shaped gold-plated buildings standing side by side, stretching high into the sky. The farther building said The Diamond Hotel, and the closer one The Diamond Residences.
Monuments of historic achievement
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
All right, we need a way to get into the palace. Any ideas?"
"Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
A messy business, rescuing princes.
The White Palace was pretty impressive. Very impressive, in fact. The day to day running of the set was everybody showed up for work. They are seasoned filmmakers over there. They have an infrastructure for filmmaking, which is very healthy. It's small, but they were tenacious, polite, timely.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.
Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls.
The Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. Where is the House that you may build for Me?
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.
A city of light and music, watched over by an alabaster castle with an opal tower so bright it could be viewed for miles. The
I am a Palace", I said to them, smiling.
My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted ... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
The Commanding Heights
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
Houses, housetops, like human beings have wonderful character. The lives of housetops. The wear of the seasons. The country is beautiful, young, growing things. The majesty of trees. The backs of tenement houses are living documents.
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts,
Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.
My buildings will be my legacy ... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
The episcopal palace of D - - adjoins the hospital.
The empire of custom is most mighty.
It is a kingship grand that all of us build, every day of our meager lives, and it is a castle made of sand. Every wrong righted seems to bring another misdeed tumbling down upon our heads. But I for one will keep building such a kingdom.
A kingdom, or this
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
Peterhof (Petrodvorets). Nicknamed the "Russian Versailles," the elaborate interiors, formal gardens, and beautiful fountains of Peter the Great's summer palace live up to their moniker. This is St. Petersburg's most famous imperial residence, located in the suburbs about 40 minutes away.
I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
I know you're picturing gold candlesticks and infinity pools, but this place they made isn't decadent, no, it's rustic in the way only a rich person's place can be, with money flowing under it invisibly, so that they get to pretend they're just like the rest of us.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
The Houselands. Graveyard to the ones
who got locked out. A chill ran up London's spine. What the hell
were they doing?
Not every road we follow will bring us to a palace or castle.
Royalty is a State of Mind
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that;
My buildings are more famous than me.
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function
The sight of London to my exiled eyes
Is as Elysium to a new-come soul.
The greatest undiscovered splendid wealth is hidden in the most exquisite palace in the never ending land of your mind. You just have to find the wealth.
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.
The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.
Architecture is the work of nations
I used to wonder why they kept princesses in towers
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of 'art' (p. 213).
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!