Demon Princes/setting

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

    Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven’t fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

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