Cardinal

Famous quotes containing the word cardinal:

“Time and I against any two.”
—Spanish proverb.

Quoted by Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV.

“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. Be upon your guard, too, against those who confess, as their weaknesses, all the cardinal virtues.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The Cardinal is at his wit’s end—it is true that he had not far to go.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)