stately quotes

The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand.

- Sir Noe«  l Peirce Coward
  'The Stately Homes of England' (song).

I became one of the stately homos of England.

- Quentin Crisp
  The Naked Civil Servant, ch.24.

   Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor, Doing the MilitaryTwo-step, as in the days of yore.

-Joyce ne  e Phipps Grenfell
  'Stately as a Galleon' (song).

Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.27,'Good and Bad Children', stanza1.

I kissed her slender hand, She took the kiss sedately; Maud is not seventeen, But she is tall and stately.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.12, stanza 4, l.424^7.

What can ever be more statelyand admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry', section 8.