“Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.”

“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”

“What people want, above all, is order.”

“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”

“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”

“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”

“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the ...”

“JACKThat is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury.ALGERNONThen your wife wil...”

“First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree on a mountain, it will be better to say 'Look at the green on the high'; for that's how they tal...”