Famous quotes containing the words london, kings and/or cross:
“At length they all to merry London came,
To merry London, my most kindly nurse,
That to me gave this lifes first native source;
Though from another place I take my name,
An house of ancient fame.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?1599)
“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin.... Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“There is a mountain in the distant West
That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
And seasons, changeless since the day she died.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)
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