Quotes About Estate

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate

Thus it was that, beginning in about the ninth century, the growing monastic estates came to resemble well-organized and stable firms that pursued complex commercial activities within a relatively free market, investing in productive activities involving a hired workforce, guided by anticipated and actual returns.

Washington initially oversaw a larger staff of slaves and servants at Mount Vernon than he did as president of the United States—but the new government quickly overshadowed his estate in size.

That investment had held its value, as had the other major asset in the aunt's estate that now passed to Nicola—a small pie factory in Glasgow. This factory, formerly trading under the name Pies for Protestants Ltd but now called Inclusive Pies, employed no more than three people.

Darkwater, the faded rose many-chimneyed house, the lawns, the trees heavy with summer, the strutting peacocks, the distant flicker of the lake.

What on earth was wrong with her? One would imagine she'd never been alone with a man, when her duties on the estate had her dealing with males of various degree from morning to night. None made her feel the way she felt dangling off Lord Lyle's elegant hand. She swallowed, her throat so tight that it hurt. Dear heavens, she was in trouble. And for once in her life, she felt helpless to rescue herself. "Watch

The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

It was like an alien spaceship had sucked a housing estate out the middle of London, then decided it didn't like the look of it and dumped it in the middle of nowhere.

according to his will.

Mine first -mine last - mine even in the grave! - Tempest

All the estate houses were the same design. Two up and two down. Originally. Little kitchens and bathrooms were added on after the war.

Mostly, I heard about it from the Estate servants, who found it quite natural to speak openly of a death, but rarely said much about life, because in life everything was obvious.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

Good temper is an estate for life.