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Rooms Quotes - Page 2

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.

1914 and Other Poems (1915) "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

"Computer Recreations: Of Worms, Viruses and Core War" by A. K. Dewdney, Scientific American, www.koth.org. March 1989.