Queen of Scotland

Famous quotes containing the words queen of, queen and/or scotland:

    “We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
    The Queen has lands and gold,
    While you are forced to your empty breast
    A skeleton Babe to hold”
    —Amelia Edwards (1831–1892)

    “A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
    —James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)