Famous quotes containing the words dearest and/or cousin:
“Ferdinand. I do beseech you—
Chiefly that I may set it in my prayers—
What is your name?
Miranda. Miranda.—O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so.
Ferdinand. Admired Miranda,
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What’s dearest to the world!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)