A Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

Thomas Love Peacock

Quote Topics

Air Alone Build Castles Castles In The Air Fair False Filled In The Past My Thoughts Night Often Past Thoughts Visions

Quote Author

Thomas Love Peacock
English - Novelist
October 18, 1785 - January 23, 1866

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Victor Hugo

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

William Osler

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

Fanny Burney

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Maxim Gorky

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Bram Stoker

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

David Frost

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

David Frost

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Henrik Ibsen

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Rita Rudner

And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.

Oswald Spengler

False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

Joe Brooks

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.

Kofi Annan

A Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors