Demon Princes/setting

Famous quotes containing the words demon, princes and/or setting:

    “The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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 (1564–1616)

    “The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder....”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)