Famous quotes containing the words gothic and/or kings:
“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)