Famous quotes containing the words king and/or hiss:
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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