Puppet Successor State

Famous quotes containing the words puppet, successor and/or state:

“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“Such is my jealousy and such my hate
though I would state it otherwise.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)