Taj Mahal Quotes

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

Dear Alec and Magnus, How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

The Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The architectural design uses the interlocking arabesque concept, in which each element stands on its own and perfectly integrates with the main structure.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.