Peter Falk

You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!

American Actor

Emily Bronte

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

English Novelist

Horace

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Roman Poet

Jacqueline Cochran

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

American Aviator

Implies a place is unpleasant; often used to criticize someone's living conditions.

Negative Connotation

Used to describe places that are not only small but also in bad condition, needing repair.

Physical Disrepair

Often reflects a lower economic status and is not typically a term of choice but of circumstance.

Hovel