Famous quotes containing the words lesser and/or king:
“I think there’s never a man in Christendom
Can lesser hide his love or hate than he,
For by his face straight shall you know his heart.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)