What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
House Quotes
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away.
If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A […]
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices. I thought that there was no need of ice to freeze them. They talked to me […]
If a man can cut such a head on his stone gate-post as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning; – if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry, as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar; can […]
He is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.
I am fond of paintings, furniture, tapestry, houses and flowers even vegetables and fruit-trees. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.
Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, “a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” Merely to be there was a cure […]
