Famous quotes containing the word king:
“Would yoube good enough Alice panted out, after running a little further, to stop a minutejust to getones breath again?
Im good enough, the King said, only Im not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Then Pilate asked him, Are you the king of the Jews? He answered, You say so.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:3.
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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