Duke of Edinburgh/dukes of Edinburgh Fourth Creation 1947%e2%80%93present

Famous quotes containing the words duke of, duke and/or fourth:

    “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
    —Edward, Duke of Windsor (1894–1972)

    “I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.”
    —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)

    “‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)