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

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

    That very knowing,
    Overflowing,
    Easygoing
    Paladin,
    The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror—and they last longer.
    David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

    ‘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)

    The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)