Cottages Quotes
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”
Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co
Derek Landy (2011). “Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)”, p.48, HarperCollins UK
Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.
Washington Irving (1846). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.58
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.11
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.162
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Phillips Brooks, “Christmas Everywhere”
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.112
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1830). “The Devil's progress, a poem, by the editor of the 'Court journal'.”, p.50
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with notes and a life of the poet by W. M'Leod. (Oxf. exam. scheme).”, p.76
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.324