A Quote by C. S. Lewis

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

C. S. Lewis

Quote Topics

Being Being Mad Building Come Cottage Decent Himself Little Live Made Palace Thought Were

Quote Author

C. S. Lewis
British - Writer
November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

George MacDonald

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

Charles M. Schulz

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

John Constable

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

Corbin Bernsen

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

Philip Pullman

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

Benjamin Disraeli

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

Imelda Marcos

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Toni Morrison

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Horace

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.