Quotes About Castle

There was a huge moon over the western mountains, and it made the city seem even more mysterious and old, and the great black castle on the ridge stood out in front of the moon. And if there are ghosts anyplace in the world, they must be here, and if there is a ghost of Queen Tamara, she must have been walking the ridge in the moonlight that night.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

His head reminded one of an ancient castle keep, with its unmanned battlements still preserved but its interior transformed into a library.

It was love at first sight with Robin, but probably the Princess Bluebell had been in love with him all the time she had been at the castle, although she wouldn't say so, of course.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

The greatest of the Nizari Ismaili leaders in Syria was Rashid ad-Din as-Sinan, who ruled over their affairs from his castle at Masyaf from the early 1160s until his death in 1192. Rashid ad-Din as-Sinan referred to himself as shaykh al-jabal—the Mountain Chief—and it was from this that the moniker the Old Man of the Mountains arose, cemented in time into the popular consciousness by

Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle.

May I keep this vision of the castle ever before my eyes, and a belief in my heart that the journey is worth while, and the castle and the glow in the windows not all illusion.

the castle's vault. Order and goodness reigned once again in the realm, and the night now offered its own promise. But this time the dream was somehow different. Changing. Going into a world of fantasy she'd never experienced before. She felt his

Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington

He bought her a pretty music box with a picture of the castle in winter painted on the lid, and she slept on his shoulder on the train ride home.

now the wind that had raged round the castle had died down to a low moaning in the pine trees—a whimpering of time-worn agony.

An Englishman's home may be his castle, but an Englishwoman's kitchen is where he eats his humble pie.

But the boy protected Yorda from the shadows-that-walk-alone. He took her hand, defended her, swung his thin arm, and fought with his tiny frame, driving them back. If the shades dragged her into their realm, she would once again become a prisoner, and the boy would turn to stone, a sad adornment in the castle. Yorda knew this. But the boy did not--even as he did not know that Yorda was the property of the queen of the castle--and he protected her.

But the boy was there, and he was looking at her. That was when Yorda understood what was drawing out her memories of the castle into the boy. It was him. He wanted to know its dark past. He wanted to know everything. No one could stop this. Not even the queen.

The first datable stone donjon, or keep, was built in France at Langeais, overlooking the Loire, in 994.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

I could use you, training the Castle guards," offered the Reeve, "but I have to warn you that the last man to hold the post of captain quit." The guard's eyebrows rose. "I wouldn't have thought that Castle guards would be that difficult." "They're not," returned Kerim. "My lady mother, however is.

They always do the same thing - come in, ask for a meal, hide, and then run off with a harp or a bag full of money the minute I fall asleep,' Dobbilan said. 'And they're always named Jack. Always. We've lived in this castle for twenty years, and every three months, regular as clockwork, one of those boys shows up, and there's never been a Tom, Dick, or Harry among 'em. Just Jacks. The English have no imagination.

Su corazón era un castillo de púrpura situado en un pedregoso desierto, oculto tras las dunas y rodeado de un oasis pantanoso y de siete murallas de piedra. Soló volando se podía acceder a él.

She heard the sound of one tremendous flap and looked up in time to see the man who'd put a hole in the roof of her stable hovering in the air over her castle looking down at her. For the space of a breath, Sam's heart completely stopped beating in her chest at what she saw in the bright light of day. Those were wings. They were real. And then she fainted dead away in her garden.