Quotes About Castle

Annoyed?" said Sophie. "Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

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

By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. It'll never fit! people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.

She stood for a moment looking out at a slowly moving view of the hills, watching heather slide past underneath the door, feeling the wind blow her wispy hair, and listening to the rumble and grind of the big black stones as the castle moved.

Calcifer agreed to speed up the castle because of a scarecrow? Dear Sophie, do please tell me how you bully a fire demon into being that obliging. I'd dearly love to know!

Zip! Back to the mansion. Zip! to Market Square. Zip! and there was the castle yet again. She was getting the hang of it. Zip! Here was Upper Folding—but how did you stop? Zip! "Oh, confound it!" Sophie cried, almost in Marsh Folding again.

By now it was clear that Calcifer did all the strong magic in the castle and Michael did all the hackwork, while Howl gadded off catching girls and exploiting the other two just as Fanny had exploited her.

And seeing clearly that his princesses would not be able to walk on air as we djinns do, he first ordered me to steal a certain moving castle belonging to a wizard in this land of Ingary in which to house his brides, and then he ordered me to commence stealing princesses.

Ann left him there, kneeling among the violets looking out into the fog as if that glimpse of the castle had somehow broken his heart.

Michel de Montaigne, a highly-educated French nobleman who retired from public duties and retreated to his family's castle around 1570 to focus on his writing, is

There used to be two of us always on the look-out for life, talking to Miss Blossom at night, wondering, hoping; two Bronte-Jane Austen girls, poor but spirited, two Girls of Godsend Castle.

et pourtant cela l'incitait à explorer tous les musées et toutes les galeries d'art de la ville, et à consacrer toutes ses vacances et presque tout son argent à aller farfouiller dans les abbayes et les châteaux d'Europe, toutes ces poubelles à touristes où patrouillent des gardiens qui ont l'air d'avoir violé leurs propres filles.

Ivana is almost as competitive as I am and she insists she's at a disadvantage with the Castle. She says she needs more suites. She isn't concerned that building the suites will cost $40 million. All she knows is that not having them is hurting her business and making it tougher for her to be number one. I'll say this much: I wouldn't bet against her. *

You probably wouldn't want to have been around the castle in which France's King Charles VI lived during the early fifteenth century. Although earlier on in his life he had been known as 'Charles the Beloved', he later became known as 'Charles the Mad'.

believed them to be aggressors. He would also roam the castle at night, howling like a wolf, and often hid in corners due to his belief that he was made entirely out of glass and

The chief extant monument of feudalism is the stone castle.

Mary arrived at Inverness only to find that the captain of the castle

His grandfather had risen on the battlefield, was promoted to an earldom and given Bothwell Castle in Lanarkshire.

he was expelled from the castle by Moray and the laird and forbidden to return.

She also sent a messenger to Dunbar with orders to fortify the castle in her name.

In late January 1569, she was taken on a long journey south to Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire

That's silly, the people in prison are thieves and murderers.' 'So are the ones in the castle. How else do you get to own a castle?

In the final analysis, therefore, the tomb of Edward I may stand, like the unfinished castle at Caernarfon, not only as a monument to the past, but also as a warning to the future: a final reminder of the power of myth to shape men's minds and motives, and thus to alter the fate of nations.