Jo Beverley Quotes

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

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.

I know it sounds glamorous, but it was bloody cold growing up in a castle.

An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.

I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England.

That no attack should reach the walls of Babylon, I did what no earlier king had done … I caused mighty wall to be built on the East side of Babylon. I dug out a moat … I made the city of Babylon a fortress.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Theory can blind observation.

Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.