Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
Christopher Love

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
Anthony Holden

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
Martin Short

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
Mel Tillis

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.
Hideki Tojo

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
Deborah Cox

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.
Prince Andrew

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake