Lord King James

Famous quotes containing the words lord, king and/or james:

    We entertaine him alwayes like a stranger,
    And, as at first, still lodge him in the manger.
    —Unknown. Yet if His Majesty, Our Sovereign Lord (l. 29–30)

    And this is law, I will maintain,
    Until my dying day, Sir,
    That whatsoever king shall reign,
    I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.
    —Unknown. The Vicar of Bray (l. 9–12)

    The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
    —Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)