Castles Quotations

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this seasons episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldnt possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'

'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Fear of vikings build castles.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.

At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...

The kids learn ballroom dancing in PE, the music teacher compiles a few songs for them to sing and they draw castles in art. It really is a collaboration of the whole school, and it's pretty exciting when it all comes together.

I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

Human desire is illimitable and without end. It makes you pursue the mirage in the desert; it makes you build castles in the air; it breeds discontent and despair, once you succumb to it.

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

Castles are Forrests of stones.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

The house of every one is to him as his castle.

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.

A man's head is his castle.

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" -

An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

I'll say something else about Christine O'Donnell. You ready? I'd rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute. I think she's kind of refreshing. She's a conservative. What's the problem?

The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life

I wanted to make a fan film for a character I've always loved and believed in - a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It's been a blast to be a part of from start to finish - we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Have fun storming the castle!

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist?" Jamie asked. No," Nick replied honestly. I cannot tell you how much that surprises me," Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle...

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.