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)
“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.”
—William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)