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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which
you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete the monument is to put
on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of Hell: 'All hope
abandon, ye who enter here.'
- George Bernard Shaw, on Statue of Liberty
It looks like a typewriter full of oyster shells; like a broken Pyrex casserole
dish in a brown cardboard box.
- Clive James, on Sydney Opera House
The Empire State Building after taxes.
- Anonymous, on the Eiffel Tower
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact
that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives
constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and
manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
- Henry David Thoreau
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
- Arnold Bennett, on Washington Monument
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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