Famous quotes containing the words king and/or performed:
“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.”
—William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)
“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)