rooms quotes

Other Voices,Other Rooms.

-Truman Capote
  Title of novel.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

-Thomas Fuller
  The Holy and Profane State, bk.2, ch.4,'Of  Travelling'.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

- Philip Arthur Larkin
  'The Old Fools'.

Architecture is an art which is basically geometrical. The cube is the basis of architecture because the right angle is necessarythe steps of a staircase consist of vertical and horizontal planes and the corners of rooms are nearly always right angles.We need right angles. 542

- Robert Mallet-Stevens
  'Architecture and Geometry', in Bulletin de la Vie Moderne, Paris.

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).

   Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, That is not kept in chains, and close-pent rooms, But in fair lightsome lodgings, and isgirt With the wild noise of prattling visitants, Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

-John Webster
  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.

In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy toa degree† He moves from point to point with as little uproar as a jellyfish.

-Plum
  My ManJeeves,'Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg'.