Grand Duke Michael

Famous quotes containing the words grand, duke and/or michael:

    “The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV] at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship’s crew, “now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Locked in each human skull is a little world all its own.”
    —Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill)