Natural Son

Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or son:

    “She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
    As proud Windsor, Where I in lust and joy
    With a king’s son my childish years did pass
    In greater feast than Priam’s sons of Troy?
    Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour;”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)