Deceased Persons

Famous quotes containing the words deceased and/or persons:

    The Papacy is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof; For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruins of that Heathen Power.
    Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

    There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
    —F.H. (Francis Herbert)