Castle Quotes

• I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Think
  • Cloud

• Cocteau fell for Raray [shooting La Belle et la Bête] ― the park, not the castle. We didn't shoot in the castle, only in the park, with that marvelous hunting scene in stone. I think it was mostly because the park wasn't properly maintained. That was what pleased Cocteau most ― the sense of wildness, exactly matching the nature of the beast.

  

  Jean Marais
  • Scene
  • Stone
  • Shoot

• My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

  

  Prince William
  • Art
  • House
  • Law

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• 'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Castle

• Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Women
  • War
  • Captured

• Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Dream
  • Doubt
  • Wrestlers

• A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Air
  • Sigh
  • Castle

• The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Vision
  • Sky

• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Book
  • Key
  • Chambers

• My sorrow is my castle.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Sorrow
  • Castle

• How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Satisfied
  • Castle
  • Crawl

• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth
  • Errors
  • Adventures

• If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Jump
  • Ketchup
  • Simon Cowell

• If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Own
  • Prisoner
  • Castle

• No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Children
  • Castle
  • King Death

• On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Wings
  • Readers
  • Fancy

• Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

  

  Arsene Houssaye
  • Happiness
  • Castle
  • Sinks

• If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

  

  Bob Altemeyer
  • Ignorance
  • Defense
  • Believes

• Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Promise
  • Christ
  • Gift

• ... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Office
  • Private Life
  • Castle

• We hired a bouncy castle in Las Vegas for a party and decided to dress up as aliens. People definitely lost it there.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • People
  • Aliens
  • Castle

• The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • House
  • Happiness
  • Castle

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