Bourbon Restoration/louis-philippe and The House of Orl%c3%a9ans

Famous quotes containing the words restoration and/or house:

    The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
    Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)