Top 165 Castles Quotes & Sayings

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

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

I realize that I've had Ian Van Dahl: 'Castles in the Sky,' the Ibiza jam, periodically stuck in my head for years, like years of my life. Every now and then 'Castles in the Sky' will just happen. Maybe that's some sort of indication that it's actually my favorite song of all time.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

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

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

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

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

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

Build castles, don't dig graves.

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.

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

I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" -

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

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

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

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

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like

My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.

Castles are Forrests of stones.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

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.

I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.