Famous quotes containing the words british and/or throne:
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
—George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)
“The Throne raises the majesty of kings above scorn and above laws.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)