Quotes of Stately - somelinesforyou

“ Everything has two sides — the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. ”

- Noel Coward

“ A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment. ”

- Etty Hillesum

“ Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. ”

- Simon Hoggart

“ This is not like U.N. or formal diplomacy. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. Incompossibility, it will be seen, is only incompatibility let loose… ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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