Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“The taking of a little prize,
Do not a single heart dispise.”
—Aurelian Townshend (c. 1583–c.1651)
“The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“My Lord advances with majestic mien,
Smit with the mighty pleasure to be seen:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)