
Source: The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money
A collection of quotes on the topic of furniture, likeness, other, people.
Source: The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money
“If we do not understand furniture we cannot understand the city”
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 6, The furniture, p. 70
Letter to Mr C. L. Aiken, March 19, 1930
1930s
“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture”
Shakespeare's will
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008)
The New Divinity (1964)
Context: God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.... To say that God is ultimate reality is just semantic cheating, as well as being so vague as to become effectively meaningless... Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place.
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
“Out of used furniture she made a tree.”
Source: The Complete Poems
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
Source: Persuasion (1817)
The Taming of the Screw (1983)
Source: The Taming of the Screw: How to Sidestep Several Million Homeowner's Problems
“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
Attributed to Einstein in Treasury of the Christian Faith https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll4wAAAAYAAJ&q=%22shabby+clothes%22+%22shoddy+furniture%22&dq=%22shabby+clothes%22+%22shoddy+furniture%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS04TynqDLAhUO8GMKHUYICMkQ6AEINTAA (1949), and subsequently repeated in other books. No original source where Einstein supposedly said this has been located, and it is absent from authoritative sources such as Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein.
Disputed
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“No furniture so charming as books.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Pelsaert, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
Jahangir’s India
Explaining his comment that now "Every PC is a Macintosh", "Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 105 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/105.html
Woz.org files
“The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture”
About Michael Heseltine, according to Alan Clark in his diaries. Clark called it "snobby but cutting".
Alan Clark Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 (Wednesday 17 June 1987) 1993 Weidenfield & Nicholson
Welcoming Address http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/parispeaceconf_poincare.htm at the Paris Peace Conference (18 January 1919).
Teresa Kok (2018) cited in " Bamboo industry must transform, modernise to grow: Kok http://www.thesundaily.my/news/2018/09/18/bamboo-industry-must-transform-modernise-grow-kok" on The Sun Daily, 18 September 2018
Writers' rooms: Colm Tóibín http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jul/13/writers.rooms.colm.toibin#, The Guardian (13 July 2007)
On the subject of terrorist demands for the release of two female scientists from an Iraqi prison, September 23, 2004.
[American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Jack Cafferty In His Own Words, 18 November 2004, http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=2386]
2004
as quoted in 'Tàpies: From Within', June/November 2013 - Presse Release text, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), pp. 7-8
1971 - 1980, Memòria Personal', 1977
22
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Source: Esther: A Novel (1884), Ch. IX
in his letter to the Bolognese writer Raimondi of September 11, 1919; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 102
Morandi was referring to some still life paintings he recently made, and he pressed Raimondi to lend him the monograph of Cézanne (written by Vollard and published in 1914).
1925 - 1945
Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561556246/Consequences_The_saws_are_sawing_wood_But_wood_is_also.html
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Teachers & Education
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 120 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)
Asian Wall Street Journal, Oct 21 1985
1980s
Source: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 71; Partly cited in: Export of objects of cultural interest 2010/11: 1 May 2010 - 30 April 2011. Stationery Office, 13 dec. 2011
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part IV: A Few Greats, Louis XIV
Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (16 May 1907); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 9
"Muslim Bites Dog" (15 February 2006) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=100.
2006
memories of Princess Meredith about encountering the body of her father, Essus; p. 40
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)
Source: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 13
On Clive Barker pretending to be Tom Cruise.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)
[In] 1927 Exhibition of Typography in Moscow.
1926 - 1941, Autobiography of the artist' (1941)
Source: High-Rise (1975), Ch. 8
“Buildings were just the world's furniture, and he didn't care how it was arranged.”
"The Pusher", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October 1981), reprinted in The John Varley Reader (2005)
"Stockton attacks Thatcher policies", The Times, 9 November 1985, p. 1.
Speech to the Tory Reform Group, 8 November 1985. Often quoted as "selling off the family silver".
1980s
The Quaker City; or, the Monks of Monk Hall, part 1, chapter 7 "The Monks of Monk-Hall" (1844)
Broken Lights Diaries 1957-59
Source: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 8-9; Partly cited in: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. Vol. 99. 1951. p. 520
Neoliberalism Has Eviscerated the Fabric of Social Life http://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/neoliberalism-has-eviscerated-the-fabric-of-social-life/, interview with Wendy Brown by Adam Ostolski, Green European Journal, March 2017
La femme est une propriété que l'on acquiert par contrat, elle est mobilière, car la possession vaut titre; enfin, la femme n'est, à proprement parler, qu'une annexe de l'homme; or, tranchez, coupez, rognez, elle vous appartient à tous les titres.
Part II, Meditation Number XII: The Hygiene of Marriage.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
The Clerk's Vision (1949)
“The trouble with Michael [Heseltine] is that he had to buy his own furniture”
Attributed by Clark in his diaries to Michael Jopling. The full quote is "An arriviste, certainly, who can't shoot straight and in Jopling's damning phrase 'bought all his own furniture', but who at any rate seeks the cachet. All the nouves in the party think he is the real thing." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/07/bbc.politicsandthemedia
Misattributed
Book 1, p. 1
Cosmotheoros (1695; publ. 1698)
"Cohen," the assistant attorney general of an unnamed East Coast state meeting covertly with Sangamon Taylor near the Jersey Shore. Chapter 11
Zodiac (1988)
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 6: “Art Night”, p. 228
“Men smell of leather. … The leather of huntsmen, furniture movers, porters.”
Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)
2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 17 “Foundation” (p. 334).
Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)
“…Louis Fourteenth Street furniture…”
From his sketchbook
1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My Painting', p. 75
The Day the Universe Changed (1985), 1 - The Way We Are
Source: Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p171.
Sixth measure “Corfe Gate” (p. 223)
Pavane (1968)
Eastop & Gil commented that:
Burges held strong views about furniture, and protested at the "enormities, inconveniences, and upholsterers." (1865: 69) He advocated the use of the medieval style, because "not only did its duty as furniture, but spoke and told a story" (1865: 71).
Source: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 69: Partly cited in: Dinah Eastop, Kathryn Gill (2012) Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice. http://books.google.com/books?id=2gf50OiP8lAC&pg=PA50 p. 47.
Source: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 105
Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7
Jahangir’s India
In addition to defying societal standards, die Brücke artists defied housing laws: the ateliers in Dresden that they worked and lived in were forbidden to be used as homes
Source: Brücke und Berlin: 100 Jahre Expressionismus, Anita Beloubek-Hammer, ed.; Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2005, p. 312 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272168564 translation, Claire Louise Albiez]
Speech during the general election of 1843, quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), pp. 113-114.
1840s
“The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.”
Memórias - Página 73, de Nelson Rodrigues - Publicado por Edições Correio de Manhã, 1967
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified