42 Hovel Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous hovel quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational hovel quotes. Hopefully, these hovel quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your hovel knowledge!

Quick Jump To

Famous Hovel Quotes

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson

My house is a doghouse. — Joe Gatto

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair. — John Quincy Adams

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman

We used to live in this little house where the whole of the upper floor was used for chickens. It was four days' walk to the nearest road. — Nirmal Purja

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce

A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle. — Irish Proverbs

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. — Hafez

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole. — Walter de La Mare

A small house will hold a hundred friends. — African Proverbs

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy. — Keith Floyd

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble - Kevin Gates

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble — Kevin Gates

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. - Rumi

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. — Rumi

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Short Hovel Quotes

  • I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. — Jacqueline Cochran
  • Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace
  • Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. — Horace
  • A great man may commence life in a hovel. — Publilius Syrus

Hovel Image Quotes

People Writing About Hovel

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Hafez

Hafez
quotes on love, friendship and life

127 12699
Read quotes by Horace

Horace
quotes on love, augustus and education

926 4340
Read quotes by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
quotes on love, death and friendship

520 5008
Read quotes by Joe Gatto

Joe Gatto
quotes on leadership, education and love

60 1
Read quotes by John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams
quotes on democracy, education and aging

153 2664
Read quotes by A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman
quotes on friendship, life and love

95 693

More Hovel Quotes

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest. — Kahlil Gibran

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines. — Karl Marx

On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage. — Alexis de Tocqueville

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants. — Jean-Baptiste Say

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. — Charles Stuart Calverley

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively. — Sarah Silverman

My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for! — Kate Siegel

[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. — Charles Kingsley

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. — George Henry Lewes

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge. — Cornelia Funke

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. — Thomas Carlyle

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. — Bertrand de Jouvenel

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors. — David Starkey

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. — James Whistler

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not. — Khaled Hosseini

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of hovel quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about hovel to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of hovel quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage