Charles A Beard/biography

Famous quotes containing the words charles, beard and/or biography:

    “But if that Golden Age would come again,
    And Charles here rule as he before did reign;”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
    —André Maurois (1885–1967)