Stately Quotes

You know because I mean, I remember just in Europe -- in Finland -- I saw this very stately, older man -- grey-haired man and his wife, a grey-haired lady. And he's just sort of standing there and he just had his arms around her. Very emotional. - Paul McCartney

When stately ships are twirled and spun / Like whipping tops and help there's none / And mighty ships ten thousand ton / Go down like lumps of lead. - Ralph Hodgson

When I first saw this place, in its bones, it reminded me of Augusta National, what with its (clubhouse) columns and stately oak trees. The majority of our early dollars will be put into the clubhouse. - David Fry

To afford these big stately houses they can't outfit them... People are waiting for things to get better so they're slowly working on the rooms. Some are taking three years to outfit their house. - Steve Goodman

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. - Virginia Woolf

There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be. - A J Gossip

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. - William Jennings Bryan

The stately homes of England! / How beautiful they stand, / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land! - Felicia Hemans

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others. - David Lloyd George

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge. - Mark Twain