King of England

Famous quotes containing the words king of england, king and/or england:

    “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England, too.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don’t know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk’s factory who experiment and learn how.... In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)