Famous quotes containing the words nicholas and/or eliot:
“Whatever qualities [Tsar Nicholas I] may have shown in his own kingly profession, it must be admitted that in his dealings with the Russian Muse he was at the worst a vicious bully, at the best a clown.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)