Famous quotes containing the words demon, princes and/or setting:
“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man,you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind,I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)