Laurie Graham Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

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

When a strong man armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace

I went to the Heidelburg Castle, a 1200-year-old castle, looked around. It was pretty awesome, but you know, they've got a coffee shop in there, and they have some sections closed off. I wanted to see the part where they tortured people, but it was cool, though.

That's what I hang my hat on, is defence.

Your defense, first and foremost, is your base.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.