King Magnus VII

Famous quotes containing the words king, magnus and/or vii:

    If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
    But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
    May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
    The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.
    James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

    Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
    —Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)

    I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
    —Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)