Quotes About Cottage

drive through the village square, taking in the market cross, the pretty church, the corner shop, a café and the one boutique selling trinkets, cards and slouchy expensive clothes. All walkable from the cottage and in a dip, surrounded by the woods and the thick oak trees that stretch up to the sky.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

While the builders worked on the cottage, Hugh lived in what used to be the stable but was later converted into a guesthouse, the kind you'd have if you wanted to either discourage guests or contain them in one spot while slowly depressing them to death.

In fact Jerry had done everything to make Mrs. Boles stay at Ganthorne Cottage, everything short of binding the woman hand and foot and locking her in the toolshed, so it really was extremely odd that her conscience should keep on bothering her like this. I suppose it's because I'm glad they're going, thought Jerry. I am glad, of course, but I can't help being glad…

At Livia's indecisive silence, Shaw abandoned the subject, and fastened his gaze on the tousled, heavily planted cottage garden ahead of them. Long banners of honeysuckle trailed over the garden fence, its fragrance making the air thick and sweet. Butterflies danced amid bright splotches of poppies and peonies. Beyond a plot of carrots, lettuce, and radishes, a rose-covered archway led to a tiny glasshouse that was shaded by a parasol-shaped sycamore.

I'll find a cottage in the country, where she and I will live off the income from my jointure." Turning from the fireplace, Devon gave her a narrow-eyed glance. "How do I fit into your future plans?" A hostile silence followed. "I really don't think I should be here," West said to the ceiling.

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may enter, the rain may enter, but the Kind of England cannot enter, all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement

As they trudged through the snow toward Clara's pretty little cottage, Ruth lost her footing. Haniya grabbed her before she fell. She held Ruth's hand for the rest of the way, and wondered if maybe the key was not in being held, but in holding.

Monarda was the zucchini of the flower world. It, too, figured prominently in the harvest market and, subsequently, the Thanksgiving bonfire, which would give off a hint of sweet bergamot so that it smelled as though every cottage in Three Pines was brewing Earl Grey tea.

So what do you do when you're not working?' 'I read books, a lot of books. I have a cottage in Twickenham, right by the river. It's a small cottage, and the books take up a greater part of it. My wife and I are great readers.

This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit.

Lights went on in the cottage, lending it an undeniably warm glow. He smiled, amused as he recalled his Snow White references where Leilani was concerned. Of course she lives in a cottage, he murmured. All she needs now are the dwarves. With all the comings and goings at the shop, which he'd spotted through the trailer blinds as he'd labored through his various meetings with Rosemary and the crew, Leilani did indeed seem to be recruiting her own miniature army.

Good. There will be a box delivered to your cottage in the morning at ten. It's a pile of books, all four of Noelle's and the three by Serena." "Homework?

Cottage I sit, alertbehind the small windowof my mind and watchthe days pass,strangers,who have no reasonto look in.

When Sarah Marston learned that her Aunt Hilda had left her a cottage and two thousand pounds, she realised that at last she could leave her husband.

You never know how many friends you have until you rent a cottage at the beach.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

She looked up to see a lovely enclosure of trees, wild cherry, fir, and willow with long golden catkins and slender, pointed green fronds swaying gracefully in the breeze. And in the center of the green cathedral of trees and surrounded by wildly untended hedges and what had once been a beautiful lawn, was one of the most picturesque cottages she had ever seen.