
“Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 31.
Section 2, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 31.
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“Castles in the air — they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.”
Hilda, Act III
The Master Builder (1892)
The Castle-builder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories