Stately Quotes

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.

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.