King Close

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or close:

“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)