Famous quotes containing the words king, hill, setting and/or characters:
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
—Henry II, King (1133–1189)
“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“We don’t arrive at it by standing on one leg or on the first day of our setting out—but though we may jostle one another on the way that is no reason why we should strike or trample—elbowing’s enough.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)