Philip II of Spain/early Years - 1527-54

Famous quotes containing the words philip, spain, early and/or years:

    “Let her go: soft, but here she comes, go to,
    Unkind, I love you not: O me, that eye
    Doth make my heart give to my tongue the lie.”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “Names on a list, whose faces I do not recall
    But they are gone to early death, who late in school
    Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding pawl.”
    —Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)

    “Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years ... today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)