Quotations About / On: HOUSE

  • 41.
    A country without bordels is like a house without bathrooms.
    (Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992), German-born U.S. actor. "Bordel," Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962).)
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  • 42.
    At your return visit our house; let our old acquaintance be renewed.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Justice Shallow, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 3, sc. 2, l. 294. Inviting Falstaff to return.)
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  • 43.
    For America is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house on an unused road but Anne does not see it.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Sixth Psalm.")
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  • 44.
    At six
    I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
    avoiding myself,
    my body, the suspect
    in its grotesque house.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Those Times . . .....")
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  • 45.
    Well, if I were going to haunt anybody, this would certainly be the house I'd do it in.
    (Robb White, and William Castle. Lance Schroeder (Richard Long), House on Haunted Hill, upon first entering the haunted house (1958).)
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  • 46.
    They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
    (Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British novelist. Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Dickens, ch. 8 (1949). Comment on the U.S. press, March 1842, while on an American tour.)
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  • 47.
    This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester's axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Chesuncook" (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 139, Houghton Mifflin (1906). Thoreau refers to a log cabin in the Maine woods.)
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  • 48.
    ... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.
    (Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British novelist. Sketches by Boz, ch. 7, p. 27 (1836).)
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  • 49.
    With crayons the child draws a rigid house
    and a winding pathway. Then the child
    puts in a man with buttons like tears
    (Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 27-29). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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  • 50.
    In a fiercely mourning house in a crooked year.
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. After the Funeral (l. 30). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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