Fortified Manor House

Famous quotes containing the words fortified and/or house:

    No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)