A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
Boy, the things I do for England.
Conservation must become before recreation.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
I learned the way a monkey learns- by watching its parents.
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything- until, that is, it comes to climate science.
Sustainability matters. Durability matters even more.
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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