Conquest/places

Famous quotes containing the words conquest and/or places:

    Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
    To be afeared to tell greybeards the truth?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)