furniture quotes

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Five Orange Pips'.

First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go.

-Stockton
  Speech at a private dinner of the Tory Reform Group, 8 Nov, in a reference to privatization and the selling of profitable state- owned enterprises.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

- Bernard Mandeville
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

Tamburlaine! A Scythian shepherd so embellishe'  d With nature's pride and richest furniture! His looks do menace heaven and dare the gods. His fiery eyes are fixed upon the earth.

- Christopher Marlowe
  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.1, act1, sc.2.

I have no intention of rearranging the furniture on the deck of theTitanic.

- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton
  On declining to rescue President Ford's disastrous election campaign.

No furniture so charming as books.

- Rev Sydney Smith
Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol1, ch. 9.

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives trying to dodge it.

- Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm Tree
Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).