Famous quotes containing the words king, missile and/or iii:
“Ill stake all my soul
on that beauty,
till God shall awake
again in mens hearts,
who have said he is dead
our King and our Lover.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)