Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or capital:
“Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show,
Of touch or marble; nor canst boast a row
Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold;
Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told,
Or stair, or courts; but stand’st an ancient pile,”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)