Caroline Polachek Quotes

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

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

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

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

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

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

…those are called gentlemen who live idly in abundance from the returns of their possessions without having any care either for cultivation or for other necessary trouble in living. Such are pernicious in every republic and in every province, but more pernicious are those who, beyond the aforesaid fortunes, command from a castle and have subjects to obey them.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.

I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century prime. It's a circular castle with the rooms built against the outer walls and quite intimate in size. Life there wouldn't follow the pattern of more classic castle design.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.