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Letter "G" » Great Houses
«Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?»
Author: Sam Ervin
(Senator)
| About:
America and Americans,
Right
| Keywords:
aide, Aides, American Revolution, divine right, Great Houses, Great White, The American Revolution, The White House, White House
«A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
comfortable, Great Houses, immediately, ranks
«No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.»
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.»
«And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.»
«And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah: / And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.»
«A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
field, fill, Great Houses, house, riches, till, wife
«Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commons, Great Houses, House of, House of Commons, the House of Commons
«Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses once!»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Frank Harris, Great Houses, Harris
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