Famous quotes containing the words decree and/or absolute:
“Thy brother by decree is banishèd.
If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him,
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)