roof and walls

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
- Winston Churchill, who was born at Blenheim Palace

greatest landscape architect

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England.

Capability Brown [1716-1783]: formal to the natural.

He also redesigned the landscape at Blenheim Palace.

on misfortune

Blenheim Palace, The birthplace of Winston Churchill [1874-1965]

Winston Churchill's wife attempted to offer her husband comfort on yet another setback. 

Lady Churchill: It's a blessing in disguise.

Sir Winston Churchill: It's a damn good disguise.

After the war, the Monarch offered Winston the highest honour of becoming the first Duke of London, but he declined.

An earlier reference to Churchill here.