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Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? — Stanislaw Leszczynski

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You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world. — Yasmin Mogahed

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. — Madeleine Albright

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible. — Marcus Aurelius

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. — Francois Mauriac

It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up. — Shaun Derry

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. — Robert Owen

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc

There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room. — Shaun Derry

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? — Petrarch

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. — Abraham Cowley

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas

many rich men and high dignitaries would willingly exchange their palaces for the poor man's cottage if they could only acquire his peace of heart. — John Of Kronstadt

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. — Lord Byron

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren

Long live gravity! Long live
stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces
of fantasy capitalism! — Wendell Berry

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees. — John Webster

Fancy hotels and meetings in palaces cannot replace the sense of home. — Malala Yousafzai

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. — Leonard Maltin

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself — C.S. Lewis

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. — Thomas Paine

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. — William Shakespeare

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans. — Irene Nemirovsky

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. — Bill Vaughan

And keeps the palace of the soul. — Edmund Waller

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. — Henry James

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich. — Wilfred Grenfell

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace. — Lilith Saintcrow

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! — Georg Buchner

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves. — Margaret Mead

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself. — Abdelkader El Djezairi

My soul is not a palace of the past ... — James Russell Lowell

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. — Richard Sibbes

and things that looked just like palaces even thought they probably weren't. — Maureen Johnson

Good taste is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce

Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there's no escaping it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation. — Charlie Chaplin

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. — Eugenie De Guerin

Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the — H.G.Wells

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

The darkness of the world made no distinctions; it entered its palaces as it did its huts. — Cornelia Funke

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin. — Woodrow Wilson

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. — William Shakespeare

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. — Mark Twain

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. — Mahatma Gandhi

The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje

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. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. — Teresa Of Avila

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. — Horace

Wonderland with all its palaces can be yours as well as Alice's. — John Biccard

A library is a palace of dreams. — M.C. Beaton

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside. — Terry Tempest Williams

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace. — George Bernard Shaw

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights. — Gloria Allred

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. — Osbert Lancaster

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace — Rumi

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. — Philip Sidney

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! — Danny Kaye

Those living in palaces have always had different agendas to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change in the twenty-first century. — Yuval Noah Harari

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. — E. Lockhart

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. — Ada Louise Huxtable

You cannot make a cheap palace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place. — Thomas Aquinas

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces. — Catherine Ponder

The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! — Keith Thibodeaux

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery. — Phil Taylor

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. — Jean De La Bruyere

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope — Bob Dylan

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. — George Henry Lewes

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater, — Oscar De La Renta

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. — Horace

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. — James Joyce

Why don't you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything — Zhuangzi