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My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. — Audrey Niffenegger

Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work. — Michel Faber

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made. — Ayana Mathis

The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair. — P.G. Wodehouse

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. — John Jay Chapman

Or like a poet woo the Moon,
Riding an armchair for my steed,
And with a flashing pen harpoon
Terrific metaphors of speed. — Roy Campbell

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales — Don Henley

There is something horribly hypocritical about passing judgement on another human beings actions from the comfort and safety of an armchair — Daniel Allen Butler

Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. — Nelson Mandela

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it. — Aesop Rock

She surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling. — Vladimir Nabokov

This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems. — Antony Beevor

Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing. — John Mortimer

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. — Anne Tyler

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. — Jean De La Bruyere

He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him. — Edmund De Waal

By mid-June, the mercury had soared up to the nineties and lingered there, like a fat dowager in her favorite armchair. — Kat Ross

Oh no! My subconscious slams down her Complete Works of Charles Dickens, leaps up from her armchair, and puts her hands on her hips. — E.L. James

The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead") — Robert Barr

Tiago decided he enjoyed armchair warfare. It was so comfortable, and there were pastries. — Thea Harrison

Pearl the Wonder Dog was asleep on her back, in the armchair next to the fireplace, with her feet sticking up in the air. — Robert B. Parker

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair. — Henri Matisse

Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk. — Nick Cave

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. — Ian Hacking

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. — Katrina Mayer

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists. — Jonathan Franzen

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be. — Arthur Smith

Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage. — CJ Fosdick

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter

And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair. — Karen Traviss

he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries. — William Meikle

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. — Henri Matisse

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. — Nick Cave

When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom. — Anthony Trollope

We are a nation of shop keepers. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop. — Stephen Fry

The painter's instrument
is his armchair. — Edouard Vuillard

She sat there majestic in her armchair, filling every inch of it. Not even a mouse could have squeezed in to sit beside her. — Roald Dahl

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard. — Alex Gibney

Let's be honest: we all watch the show at home and play 'armchair' 'Survivor,' inserting our opinions, comments and yelling at the TV screen. — Jenna Morasca

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber

You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair! — Feargal Quinn

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on. — Tom Hardy

Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic. — Isaac Asimov

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso