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46 quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Gardiner's chantry tomb in Winchester Cathedral. Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483 - 12 November 1555) was an English Roman Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England.
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

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Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

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Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

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

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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

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It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

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