37 Cottage Quotes for You to Enjoy

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. Thomas Babington Macaulay

King Books Would Rather Cottage Read Without Than Poor Full Desire

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. Benjamin Disraeli

Happy Cottage Safe Palace

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Friedrich Schiller

Love Happy Cottage Smallest Loving Room Pair

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature. George Murray

Nature Quality Ways Carousel Some About More Cottage Fact Feel Because Builder Than Confident In Fact Much Letter Actually Cohesive

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. Anne Stevenson

Time Great Poet Sister Mountains Live Spend Married Cottage Writer Vermont Wales North Where Children USA Lucas Who Peter

People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school. Ashley Graham

Me People School Cheese Cottage Through Thighs

Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh. Ben Dolnick

Made Philip Furious Characters Seem Cottage Sabbath Like Protagonist Industry Mickey Theater Creations Profane Roth Compared Earlier

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution. Caroline Knapp

Culture Cheese Dairy Honestly Our Visible Would Cases Cottage Self-Denial Most Caution Labels Substance Warning Appear Symbols

I love so many cheeses. I like them hard and soft. I like cream cheese; I like cottage cheese... I'm a true Midwesterner. Cecily Strong

Love Cheese Cottage True Like Them Cream Hard Many Soft

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. Charlotte Smith

Gardening Garden Beauty Destitute Cottage Most Use Designed

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. Christian McKay

Music Happy Cottage Outside Very Century Worker Kent Playing

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.' Geoff Dyer

Me Tears Paradise Lost Rage Garbage Our Ruined Books Tempest More Cottage Obviously Praised Continue End Get Ended Move Wordsworth Then Many Now Near Speech

To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. Graydon Carter

Dreams You Book First Carefully Release Rightly Jobs Must Promoters London Martin Cottage Steve Steve Jobs Industry His Up Itself Discuss Orchestrated Literary Anything Which Product Apple

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. Hope Davis

Family Lie Try Car Husband Drive Nothing Every Suitcases Trees Our Summer Kids City Beaches Cottage Crowded Maine Tense New Around Island Pine Rocky York New York New York City Pack Barbecue Sandy Sea Swim Load

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage. Joanne Harris

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap. Kate Klise

I live in a cottage and volunteer in the village shop. Lisanne Falk

Live Cottage Volunteer Shop Village

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive. Marcia Muller

Legal World Better First Building Own Took Scale Out About More Cottage Pursuit Obsessive She Unusual Refer Years Years Ago Label Up Friends Effort Models Hobby Where Blunt Gain Then Electrified Fully Grasp Cooperative Her Started

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

Car Edge Living Run Cottage Years Years Ago Afford Lovely Twenty

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