Castles In The Air Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, William Rounseville Alger, William Osler, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Whately and many others.
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.
If you don’t build castles in the air you won’t build anything on the ground.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
I simply can’t imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about “after the war,” but it’s as if I’m talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.
And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.
Tis best to build no castles in the air.
By reading the characteristic features of any man’s castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.
