T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days”
“The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”
“The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.”
“The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”
“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.”
“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.”
“The house of magic has many rooms.”
“The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.”
“The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!”
“The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.”
“The House of Representatives truly represents America, and because of that, about a third of its members are complete fucking morons.”
“The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.”
“The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.”
“The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices.”
Source: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.”
“The house praises the carpenter.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862
“The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace”
Source: The Poetics of Space
“the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.”
“The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.”
“The house rightfully was Eveshka’s, Pyetr certainly was, and that left Sasha Misurov lately feeling all his own happiness so fragile a misaimed wish could shatter it.”
Source: Chernevog
“The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.”
Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
“The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true.”
Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
“The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.”
“The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.”
“The house, she couldn't help noticing, was just the right size for her in her present form, but not proportionally; it was built for a rabbit's movements and habits. Doors were fatter, rounder, and shorter. There were lovely paintings of carrots and dill artfully arranged on the lettuce-print wallpaper along with the usual long-eared silhouettes. Lovely little velvet King Louis chairs were more like tuffets for resting on with all (four) of your legs pulled up under you.”
Source: Unbirthday
“The House shewes the owner.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.”
“The house shows the owner.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“The house sits on a gentle curving street that ends in a cul-de-sac. The surrounding houses are all equally attractive and well maintained, and relatively similar. People who live here are successful and settled; everyone's a little bit smug.”
Source: A Stranger in the House
“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
“The house stood high on the peninsula of Vaucluse, three stories tall with a turret on one side. It had been built in the middle of the nineteenth century, when Jess's great-great-great-grandfather arrived in the colony of New South Wales, and had been featured in several glossy books about architecture that her grandmother kept open on the display tables in the library. Inside it was entirely unpredictable: unexpected doorways led to hidden staircases that wound around brick chimneys and allowed a person to arrive in a vastly different part of the house from that which they'd left.”
Source: Homecoming
“The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.”
“The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.”
Source: Islands in the Stream: A Novel
“The house was burning. The kitchen was on fire. All I smelled were the coffee beans from Tuesday morning. You stand between the thought of staying and leaving because toxicity is a dangerous electricity.”
“The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.”
Source: East of Eden
“The house was empty—and that made it worse.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“The house was hers, but a clause in her father's will gave Louisa right of residence for the duration of her life. Her father had always favored Louisa. She had given him admiration, whereas Betty only fed and clothed and cared for him.”
Source: Antarctica
“The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.”
Source: Vintage Cisneros
“The house was impressive — but not inviting. It had everything, except warmth. Glass, marble, steel — every surface polished to surgical sterility. It didn’t feel like a home. It felt like a verdict.
Chapter 50”
Source: Voluntary pain
“The house was large and deeply lived-in, all the shelves and surfaces stacked with books and boxes, framed pictures, old greeting cards set up like tent cities...Every single surface told a story. A long one. With digressions.”
Source: Sourdough
“The house was my dream for the longest time. But it's not anymore... Not since you gave the word dream a whole new meaning.”
Source: A Summer of Dandelions
“The house was not much of a house as it was a two- story cottage, austere and quaint, chimney emanating silver smoke and the house bringing forth a smell of homemade food.”
Source: the Poppy fields near the French countryside: Sappho edition
“The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested." they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke. It's out, right?" he said”
Source: Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction
“The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.”
Source: Transport to Summer
“The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The house was quiet when he got inside. Why wouldn't it be?
He was alone.”
Source: A Monster Calls
“The house was quieter than usual, the sounds muffled and soft. It made her throat ache: The darkness, the kitchen, the single light. It felt like she was watching a movie of her life from an earlier era. Before Mom left, before all the trouble. Guilt twinged in Madi’s stomach. Before I took off and left Dad to deal with Sarah alone.”
“The house was safe again, although a little bit more untidy, but at least Vluffy didn’t have to worry about big nasty two headed roaches chasing him down the hall anymore.”
Source: Innocent Minds
“The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.”
Source: Wolf by the Ears