Quotes of: Old-house Keyword

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

The House at Pooh Corner

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

The House of Dust

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

The House of the Dead

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

The House of the Seven Gables

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

The House of God

Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.

The House of Hades

Yes, Jason Grace." Favonius arched an eyebrow. "I fell in love with a . Does that shock you?

The House of Hades

Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug. "Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!

The House of Hades

The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. you "I've been to Tartarus and back," Nico snarled. "You don't scare me."

The House of Hades

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

The House of Hades

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

Anita Shreve

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.

Anne's House of Dreams

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Anne's House of Dreams

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

The House of Mirth

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The House of Mirth

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down

The House of Mirth

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

The House Guest: Pathway to Persuasion

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

A House of Pomegranates