47 Quotes About Castles

The classic appeal of a large facility or home like a castle does not hold much value in today’s world of technology and connectivity. These places of grandeur and history remind us of a different time and different way of living. These quotes about castles capture the whimsical nature of these places.

“A man’s home is his wife’s castle.”

“A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.”

“As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.”

“Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don’t attempt to live in them.”

“By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.”

“Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He’s in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.”

“Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.”

“Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.”

“Do not build a castle around one act of kindness; do not build an empire around one act of cruelty.”

“Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.”

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings.”

“Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!”

“Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That’s what Alzheimer’s is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.”

“I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.”

“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”

“I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.”

“I was not someone who participated in other people’s castles.”

“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”

“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.”

“I’m just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.”

“Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!”

“It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It’s just a matter of whether you’re focused on a castle or a button.”

“It was time to take what he wanted. And what he wanted was her.”

“I’ve always been a history lover. I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.”

“Living in a castle is objectively romantic.”

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”

“Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.”

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

“Our castle would crumble before us but that doesn’t mean it can’t be rebuilt, rebuilt for real, this time without the errors and a little more caution.”

“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”

“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.”

“Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes a recluse to the tower of the castle and begins to build something behind closed doors, not even his daughter knows what he’s up to. ”

“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”

“So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.”

“Sorry, I don’t do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs. ”

“The castle in the heights I thought I could not aspire to could so easily be mine now that I don’t need it, I’ve already got my own paradise.”

“The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman’s home is not his castle.”

“The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.”

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

“There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.”

“To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.”

“Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.”

“Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.”

“We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.”

“Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?”

“You can’t very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.”

“You make kingdoms and castles on your own.”

Castles throughout history are surrounded with many mythical stories and many legends of those that once lived there.