Stately Quotes

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

Build thee more stately mansions.