Wicked Palace Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words wicked, palace and/or revolution:

“There are wicked men who would be much less dangerous if they had not some goodness.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

““I suppose with the French Revolution for a father and the Russian Revolution for a mother, you can very well dispense with a family,” he observed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)