Moat House

Famous quotes containing the words moat and/or house:

“Our moat around us is no more a moat,
Our continent no more a moated castle.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Of all the riddles of a married life, said my father ... there is not one that has more intricacies in it than this—that from the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to [child]bed, every female in it ... becomes an inch taller for it....
I think rather, replied my uncle Toby, that ‘tis we who sink an inch lower.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)