Famous quotes containing the words european and/or ancestry:
“Assassination is the perquisite of princes.”
—19th-century European court cliché.
“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)