Palace Lock Heart

Famous quotes containing the words palace, lock and/or heart:

“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Don’t lock me in wedlock, I want
marriage, an
encounter....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)