All doors open to courtesy. [ Proverb ]
Good clothes open all doors. [ Proverb ]
Noble housekeepers need no doors. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There are doors in every human heart. [ Virginia F. Townsend ]
Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]
The greatest step is that out of doors. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I know there are voices I do not hear,
And colors I do not see;
I know that the world has numberless doors
Of which I have not the key. [ Minot J. Savage ]
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. [ William Shakespeare ]
No doors are shut against honest grey-hairs. [ Proverb ]
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. [ Massinger ]
Quarrelling dogs should be kicked out of doors. [ Proverb ]
My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]
Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the doors. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the entrance. [ Plutarch ]
To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues. [ Theognis ]
Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. [ Bible ]
Good actions are the invisible hinges of the doors of heaven. [ Victor Hugo ]
Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors. [ Lemontey ]
You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will return. [ Horace ]
Flattery sits in the parlour, when plain dealing is kicked out of doors. [ Proverb ]
Govern the lips as they were palace doors, the king within;
Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win. [ Sir Edwin Arnold ]
It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors, and shut up your countenance. [ Proverb ]
Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [ Juvenal ]
Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The question is not at what door of fortune's palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? [ Burns ]
To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the threshold of love, while the doors are closed: this is all the science of a coquette. [ De Bernard ]
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV. Sc.1 ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]