Piffle Princess Appears

Famous quotes containing the words princess and/or appears:

    “How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!”
    —Bible: Hebrew Lamentations 1:1.

    Said of Jerusalem.

    “But that all his [Bishop Berkeley’s] arguments, though otherwise intended, are, in reality, merely sceptical appears from this, that they admit of no answer and produce no conviction. Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion, which is the result of scepticism.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)