top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
Author Name
Personal Development
"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
Life
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
Experience
"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"
Life
"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
Love
"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
Houses
"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
Imagination
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
Life
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Nothing
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
Man
"Give me love and work - these two only."
Love
bottom of page